||| FROM AXIOS SEATTLE |||


No need to go out of your way for a northern lights show that will not be anything special in Seattle or anywhere else this week.

Driving the news: A story that went viral about the aurora borealis being visible in 17 states due to a solar storm is not accurate, according to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute that was widely cited as the source.

  • The Geophysical Institute does not make aurora predictions, according to a statement sent to Axios from research associate professor Don Hampton, a space physicist at the Institute.
  • Aurora predictions are issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center, but the current numbers for Wednesday and Thursday actually show relatively low levels of activity.

 

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