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He Monitors Solar Flares. Here’s What Keeps Him Up at Night.

Mike Bettwy, a government meteorologist who focuses on potential threats from space weather, says that we are more prepared than ever β€” and that forecasting is only getting better.

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Mike Bettwy, the operations chief for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center. β€œThe sun is definitely entering its more active phase,” he said.

How to View the Northern Lights on Sunday Night

The best weather conditions for viewing the colorful light display will be in much of the West while New England was β€œa question mark,” a forecaster said.

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A geomagnetic storm lit up the night sky above the Bonneville Salt Flats in Wendover, Utah, on Friday.
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