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Yes. Even more suprising was to see it at lat 40 N.
A specialist in geophysics with whom I spoke this
morning confirmed that there were unusually
strong magnetic storms recently.
(If I knew in advance I'd look at my compass,
but unfortunately I was completely unprepared to
see aurora borealis on this latitude, and did not recognize
what I was seeing yesterday).

Only now I recall that something unusual was going
on with electric power in my home last night.
But I did not connect these
two things then and cannot say that they were related.

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Mike Boersma wrote:

> At 42d 17.2' N, 85d 44.5'W the aurora borealis had more color, being a
> bluish color at when I looked at about 2315 EST. It is unusual to see
> aurora effects south of 45dN. I would imagine that north of 45dN there
> would be even more color. Any word on excessive radio interference or
> GPS loss of performance due to strong solar flare activity?
>
> Michael Boersma

   

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