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SpaceWeatherNews, in part 2 of its pole-shift special, presents a research note that counts five Florida-latitude auroras in Solar Cycle 25. The note says those five events, in under three years, stand against a historical average of about 0.6 Florida-equivalent auroras per solar cycle back to 1859, and that the Cycle 25 storms were weaker than the older ones that reached Florida. It reads the difference as Earth answering the solar wind more strongly while the magnetic field changes, not as the sun producing more major storms.
A second note covers 23–24 March 2023: a G4 storm from a faint CME that forecasts missed, and a camera-only red aurora photographed that night from Chiefland, Florida, which the note calls the first Florida aurora of the cycle.
Over a century of super-aurora in less than 3 years
March 2023: a missed CME, a severe storm, and Florida's red sky
Bigger solar storms since 2023
A second note covers 23–24 March 2023: a G4 storm from a faint CME that forecasts missed, and a camera-only red aurora photographed that night from Chiefland, Florida, which the note calls the first Florida aurora of the cycle.
Over a century of super-aurora in less than 3 years
March 2023: a missed CME, a severe storm, and Florida's red sky
Bigger solar storms since 2023