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arches of crimson light and radiations from an auroral crown near the zenith. Here it was noted aa being the most brilliant display since March 22, 1920. At Norfolk, Va., there were small patches of red light; and at Augusta and Savannah, Ga., faint pink to darker red glows. A number of ships report...
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1938
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.387.8699 http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/066/mwr-066-02-0044.pdf |
| Summary: | arches of crimson light and radiations from an auroral crown near the zenith. Here it was noted aa being the most brilliant display since March 22, 1920. At Norfolk, Va., there were small patches of red light; and at Augusta and Savannah, Ga., faint pink to darker red glows. A number of ships reporting to the Weather Bureau or to the Hydrographic Office, indicate the wide extent of the phenomenon aa witnessed on the North Atlantic. Some sections of the ocean were heavily clouded, which prohibited a view, while others were partly clouded to clear. In partly obscured areas the specta.cle was enhanced by comparison with cumulonimbus or other dark clouds. A tentative charting of ships ’ auroral observations for the Atlantic covers the region extending from near the west coast of Portugal west-southwestward near1 to Bermuda and farther southward and westward amost ry to the Bahamas. The most southerly observation found is that |
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