Мы тестируем новую версию сайта. Эта версия обновляться не будет. Приносим извинения за временные неудобства.
We are testing a new version of the site. This version will not be updated. We apologise for any temporary inconvenience.
Estamos probando una nueva versión del sitio. Esta versión no se actualizará. Rogamos disculpen las molestias.

Site statistics

35225 facts from 177 countries related to 1198 phenomena have been registered in Archive. 2834 of them were solved, another 11033 are under verification for compliance with one of the 322 versions.

0 facts have been added for last 24 hours.

Share your story

You are in "News" section

This section accumulates world news published in the media and concerning facts, phenomena and/or versions.

Solar wind brought auroras

Added	Tue, 05/03/2019
Источники	gismeteo.ru
Дата публикации	Mon, 04/03/2019
Версии	The Aurora (Northern lights)

For the fourth consecutive day the Earth is in the solar wind flow, coming from a large coronal hole in the solar atmosphere. Saturday, March 2, when the wind speed reached more than 500 kilometers per hour, automatic webcam in Abisko national Park in Sweden recorded bright auroras.

"Green streaks lit the sky just after sunset, when not quite dark," says Chad Blakely from Lights over Lapland.

National Park, founded in 1909, is located in the North of Sweden near the village of Abisko, near the Norwegian border. After 200 kilometers to the North is the Arctic circle.

The solar wind is disturbing the Earth's magnetosphere, comes from facing the us coronal holes, formed in the summer of 2018. In the period of the solar minimum discontinuities in the solar corona are sustained for an extended time.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»