Surf’s up! Look north

According to this…

… the Aurora is on.

The Kp Index has hit 5, and a geomagnetic storm is on.

Here’s today’s SpaceWeather on the matter. Follow the links there.

Bear in mind that the aurora are curtains of light up to a thousand miles high. So if the auroral oval is pushed down over southern Canada (which these storms tend to do), it should still be visible far south across the United States. Current links:

• Northern Lights over the UK (metofficenews.wordpress.com)
• An Easy Guide To Observing Aurora (mbcalyn.wordpress.com)
• Epic Geomagnetic Storm Erupts : Discovery News (mbcalyn.com)
• Will you see the lights tonight? (blogs.discovermagazine.com)
• NOAA: Largest Solar Radiation Storm Since 2005 Now in Progress (geologyfreak.wordpress.com)
• Northern Lights Dance Over Northern England (usnews.com)
• Solar Storm January 2012 – How is it Changing You and the World? (moonlightenedshelves.wordpress.com)
• MASSIVE SOLAR STORM: Delta Reroutes Flights amid Biggest Storm Since 2005 (blippitt.com)
• Geomagnetic storm expected to hit Earth on Tuesday (100gf.wordpress.com)