Low solar activity shutting down Northern Lights / Aurora Borealis

The Aurora Borealis, AKA 'Northern Lights' have been non-existent this year. According to Dirk Lummerzheim, a research professor who studies the aurora borealis for the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, "we are at a solar minimum."

From Minnnesota to Alaska people are asking, "what happened to the aurora?"

Read more from;

Anchorage Daily News http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/interior/story/700194.html

Very Low Solar Activity Causes Some to Speculate About a New Dalton Minimum
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/615061/very_low_solar_activity_causes_some.html

University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, Aurora forecast; http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/

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