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Northern lights forecasted to be visible over Rhode Island Friday and Saturday
WATCH: View of the northern lights from Hansville
Greg Johnson’s SkunkBayWeather.com webcam caught the aurora borealis early Monday morning.
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Is seeing the northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, on your bucket list? This could be a chance to check it off your list without leaving Rhode Island.
From Friday night to early Saturday morning, the Aurora Borealis will potentially be visible over the northern United States, possibly reaching as far as Virginia, Missouri, Colorado.
Though a rare occurrence overall, this is the second year in a row that the northern lights have come south. An April 2023, they were visible all the way to Arizona.
While the prediction say they are likely to be visible in the Ocean State, AccuWeather’s forecast says the viewing conditions may be poor because of cloud cover. But the show might return again on Saturday night, when conditions might be better.
What is the Aurora Borealis?
The phenomenon of the northern lights is caused by massive clouds of charged particles released by the sun toward the Earth, events known as coronal mass ejections. Upon impact with the Earth’s magnetic field, these particles interact with molecules of atmospheric gases to ignite the aurora borealis over the Northern Hemisphere, usually over Canada.
Situations such as this one result from larger coronal mass ejections, which can mean the lights will spark over larger portions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Best places to see the Northern Lights 2024
Barring cloud cover, which could be an issue for viewers in the Northeast, for best results it’s recommended to travel somewhere with as little light pollution as possible and look to the northern horizon.
“I personally have seen them five times, the best in 2003,” Francine Jackson, staff astronomer at Brown University’s Ladd Observatory said last July. “The best way to see them here has to be a place with a good northern horizon, with as little light pollution as possible.”
If you’re trying to see the lights, she recommended finding a north-facing beach.
Even if you don’t get the best view on Friday, if the coronal mass ejections continue at their present level, the northern lights could still be visible here on Saturday night as well.
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Authorities ID man killed in Thanksgiving crash on Mass. highway near Rhode Island
Authorities have identified the person who died in a crash involving a vehicle and a tractor trailer on a Massachusetts highway on Thanksgiving morning.
Carlos Chavez Martinez, 28, of Providence, Rhode Island was killed in the crash that happened on Interstate 95 near North Attleborough on Thursday, Nov. 27, according to the office of Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III.
At 2:30 a.m., state troopers responded to the crash involving a tractor trailer and a motor vehicle on I-95 south near mile marker 9.2 in North Attleborough, Quinn’s office said.
Officers found a white Audi sedan on the right side of the highway. The sedan had collided with a tractor trailer that was parked in a rest area. The Audi had “catastrophic damage on top of a guardrail and adjacent to the rear wheels of the trailer,” according to Quinn’s office.
The Audi’s driver, later identified as Chavez Martinez, was found unresponsive and still in the driver’s seat. Paramedics pronounced him dead at around 2:40 a.m.
The tractor trailer was driven by a 40-year-old man who did not appear to be injured, according to Quinn’s office.
The crash remains under investigation by the Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit assigned to the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office along with the Massachusetts State Police.
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Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency’s alert system down after cybersecurity incident
(WJAR) — Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency said its CodeRED notification system is down after a national cybersecurity incident.
According to officials, the OnSolve CodeRED emergency notification platform was involved in a cybersecurity incident recently.
The platform, which is provided by the vendor Crisis24, remains unavailable.
“Because RIEMA utilizes additional alert and warning systems beyond CodeRED, at no time during this incident did the state lose the capability to alert and warn the public,” RIEMA said in a statement.
RIEMA said CodeRED alert system can store the name, address, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords of users that signed up to receive the alerts.
The company told NBC 10 News’ sister station in Seattle, “We confirm that data potentially associated with the legacy OnSolve CodeRED platform has been published online following a targeted attack by an organized cybercriminal group. The attack also resulted in damage to the OnSolve CodeRED environment.”
Agency officials said state and local communities will use additional messaging platforms to issue emergency alerts.
CodeRED advised users to update their passwords if they’ve reused the same one on other accounts.
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“The vendor is working to expedite the migration of users to their new CodeRED product, which has undergone enhanced security hardening,” RIEMA said in a statement.
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Rhode Island secures 90-75 win against Temple
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Jonah Hinton’s 25 points helped Rhode Island defeat Temple 90-75 in a consolation game of the ESPN Events Invitational Adventure Bracket on Wednesday.
Hinton shot 8 for 11, including 7 for 10 from beyond the arc for the Rams (6-2). Tyler Cochran scored 20 points and added nine rebounds and three steals. Jahmere Tripp shot 5 of 7 from the field, including 1 for 3 from 3-point range, and went 3 for 4 from the line to finish with 14 points, while adding six rebounds.
The Owls (4-3) were led in scoring by AJ Smith, who finished with 18 points. Temple also got 11 points and seven rebounds from Derrian Ford. Masiah Gilyard finished with 11 points.
The game was close heading into the half, as Rhode Island held a two-point lead, 41-39. Hinton paced their team in scoring through the first half with 14 points. Rhode Island took a nine-point lead in the second half thanks to a 9-0 scoring run. Hinton led the Rams in second-half scoring with 11 points.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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