Heavy snow and difficult travel expected again, heaviest snow in southern Minnesota

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Night owls may want to check the northern sky early this week. 

 is sending multiple energy waves toward Earth this week. The inbound coronal mass ejections may excite gasses high in Earth’s magnetosphere, and produce auroras the next two nights. (loop above)

Spaceweather.com elaborates on the active, earth-facing sunspot region.

The sunspot complex is sending multiple waves earthward. So timing the waves could be tricky.

The CME’s appear to be strong enough to spark northern lights as far north as Minnesota, and possibly as far south as Oklahoma. 

Cloud forecasts suggest mostly clear but hazy skies over Minnesota overnight. We may see a few more clouds after midnight. Here’s NOAA’s HRRR model low cloud output overnight into early Tuesday.

Your best chance for seeing northern lights is to get to dark areas away from city lights. A clear and dark northern sky view on the south end of a lake is best. They could occur at any time of the night. 

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A strong geomagnetic storm may spark northern lights over much of North America over the next two nights. 

A strong geomagnetic storm may spark northern lights over much of North American the next two nights.

Geomagnetic storms could spark northern lights over Minnesota

Sunspots sending Coronal Mass Ejections toward earth

Geomagnetic storms could spark northern lights over Minnesota

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