{"id":67793,"date":"2025-11-12T13:51:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=67793"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:51:58","slug":"aurora-visible-over-much-of-continental-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/67793","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Visible Over Much of Continental United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A series of recent coronal mass ejections from the sun cased a severe geomagnetic storm on earth. On the evening of 11 November 2025 into the early morning of the 12th, this resulted in a very strong aurora borealis event visible across much of the continental United States. Reports came as far south as southern Alabama (witness this<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSMobile\/status\/1988446048658792812\"> social media post<\/a> from the Mobile, AL, NWS office). Much of the central and southeastern United States was cloud-free last night, opening up a rare opportunity for vast swaths of Americans to view such a unique phenomenon. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov\/GOES\/documents\/QuickGuide_GOESR_NtMicroRGB_final.pdf\">night microphysics<\/a> RGB identifies where the clear areas were; the large pink regions represent the areas with clear skies as of 0300 UTC on the 12th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"472\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/G19-ABI-FD-night-microphysics_20251112_025020.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/G19-ABI-FD-night-microphysics_20251112_025020.png 472w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/G19-ABI-FD-night-microphysics_20251112_025020-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Day-Night Band on VIIRS is capable of showing what the aurora look like from the satellite view.  The following image is a composite of multiple VIIRS overpasses on NOAA-21 as captured by direct broadcast antennas. Note that the peak band of light penetrated into the continental United States. The moon phase was a waning gibbous at roughly 55% illumination, providing some additional light for the clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"626\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/j02-viirs-dynamic-dnb-msn-daily_20251112_091400.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/j02-viirs-dynamic-dnb-msn-daily_20251112_091400.png 626w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/j02-viirs-dynamic-dnb-msn-daily_20251112_091400-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The NOAA S<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/\">pace Weather Prediction Center<\/a> anticipates another severe geomagnetic storm from the evening of the 12th into the 13th. As such, there may be additional aurora viewing opportunities then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of recent coronal mass ejections from the sun cased a severe geomagnetic storm on earth. On the evening of 11 November 2025 into the early morning of the 12th, this resulted in a very strong aurora borealis event visible across much of the continental United States. Reports came as far south as southern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":67795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,149,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noaa-21","category-space-weather","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67796,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67793\/revisions\/67796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}