Can it be seen from Türkiye?
×Corrected · May 2024·11 May G5 stormIn 2019 the honest answer was “very low.” On the night of 10–11 May 2024 this sentence was updated: it was seen from Türkiye. To call it “impossible,” there now stand not one but two nights in the past.
The odds of the northern lights being seen from our country are very low. When certain criteria are met, they can at most be watched from the northernmost points of the nearest Western European countries — France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany.
+Added · May 2024·Gannon Storm · G5On the night of 10–11 May 2024, the strongest geomagnetic storm since 2003 occurred (NOAA named it the “Gannon Storm,” scale G5). The Kp index reached 9. Aurora photographs poured onto social media from many Turkish provinces — Erzurum, Çanakkale, Edirne, Burdur and more; to the naked eye it appeared as a pink glow, while photo frames captured clear green-violet curtains.+Added · October 2024·Second waveOn the night of 10–11 October 2024 another G4 event occurred; this time observations were recorded from north of İstanbul, the Black Sea coast and Eastern Anatolia. With cycle 25 at its peak, events of this intensity are no surprise — this cycle will keep the door half-open for Türkiye throughout 2025–2026.Billions of tons of CME slammed into Earth's magnetic field. Campers at Yedigöller woke in the middle of the night and thought the glow in the sky was the Sun. In İstanbul, people woke to the lights reflecting off the Bosphorus.
When the “Victorian internet” burned.
As the day wore on, the intensifying storm electrified the telegraph lines: it shocked technicians, set papers alight and brought down the era's communication network. Its source was an extraordinary solar flare the British astronomer Richard Carrington had observed the day before — and that observation became the beginning of today's space-weather science.
- +10–11 October G4 storm · second wave
- +Gannon G5 storm · Türkiye observations
- דOdds very low” sentence · two nights back
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