Dani
can someone confirm if CMEs also are in place on the southern polar regions?
A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) is a cloud of ionised gas ejected from the sun at high velocity. If the Earth ends up in the path of of a CME then you may well get aurora at both poles, as far as I'm aware you can't forecast if the effects are more likely to be seen at one pole or the other.
I'm not sure why the current event is getting so much publicity, if you routinely follow the websites captjns has linked to and/or subscribe to any of the space weather forecasting services you'll find CMEs routinely being reported on an almost weekly basis, and the energetic ones aren't that uncommon.
There are polar lights on the south poles (I've never seen one),
I've only seen the "Southern Lights, aka the Aurora Australis once and that was in flight overhead from Alice Springs - which was fairly unusual because that's a long way from the pole. Enjoy the Falklands...hope you get clear skies..
