KHOU 11 viewers shared photos of the Aurora Borealis seen in Texas on Friday, May 10.
NOAA alerted operators of power plants and spacecraft in orbit to take precautions, as well as the Federal Emergency Management Agency.TEXAS, USA — An unusually strong solar storm could produce northern lights in the U.S. this weekend and potentially disrupt power and communications. But will you be able to see them in Texas?
“That’s really the gift from space weather — the aurora,” said Steenburgh. He and his colleagues said the best aurora views may come from phone cameras, which are better at capturing light than the naked eye. An extreme geomagnetic storm in 2003, for example, took out power in Sweden and damaged power transformers in South Africa.
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