Solar Storm 2024 May. A very rare geomagnetic storm watch was issued late thursday by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration’s space weather prediction center. A series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections have created dazzling auroras that may be seen as far south as alabama and northern california — but could.

Noaa space weather forecasters have observed at least seven coronal mass ejections (cmes) from the sun, with impacts expected to arrive on earth as early as midday friday, may 10, and persist. During this month’s solar storms — you know, the ones that resulted in the aurora lighting up half of the planet on may 10 — ocean networks canada’s (onc).