{"id":1814423,"date":"2023-05-12T08:40:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T12:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1814423"},"modified":"2023-05-12T08:40:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T12:40:22","slug":"noaas-aurora-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/05\/noaas-aurora-forecasts\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA’s Aurora Forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It turns out that auroras are a thing you can generate weather maps for. NOAA\u2019s Space Weather Prediction Center has this experimental Aurora Dashboard<\/a> that predicts the visibility of the aurora borealis and australis for the next two nights.<\/p>\n

(And space weather is in fact something that NOAA tracks<\/a>: the term covers the effects of solar phenomena, cosmic rays, the ionosphere\u2014think aurora sunspots, solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and their impacts on climate, communications, the power grid, GPS.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It turns out that auroras are a thing you can generate weather maps for. NOAA\u2019s Space Weather Prediction Center has this experimental Aurora Dashboard that predicts the visibility of the aurora borealis and australis for… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1617,159],"class_list":["post-1814423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-weather-and-climate","tag-aurora","tag-noaa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1830996,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/05\/g5-scale-geomagnetic-storm-in-progress\/","url_meta":{"origin":1814423,"position":0},"title":"G5-Scale Geomagnetic Storm in Progress","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"10 May 2024","format":"link","excerpt":"NOAA The Earth is being hit by a solar storm at the moment; NOAA\u2019s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has observed severe (G5) geomagnetic storm conditions for the first time since 2003. 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