{"id":359245,"date":"2025-11-06T06:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/359245\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T06:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:51:14","slug":"strong-geomagnetic-storm-makes-northern-lights-sightings-possible-in-us-on-thursday-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/359245\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Strong&#8217; geomagnetic storm makes Northern Lights sightings possible in US on Thursday, Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those as far south as Iowa, Pennsylvania and Oregon could get a chance to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/16\/us-news\/northern-lights-wow-in-midwest-northern-us-during-solar-storm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see the Northern Lights<\/a> on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center issued a G3 or \u201cstrong\u201d Geomagnetic Storm Watch for Thursday and Friday, with the highest possibility of seeing auroras in the U.S. states bordering Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Geomagnetic storms can affect power grids, satellite operations and be a danger for astronauts in space.<\/p>\n<p>Geomagnetic storms occur from solar activity. <\/p>\n<p>The sun is a bubbling hot cauldron of non-stop activity that occasionally gives off solar flares, which in turn can trigger what\u2019s known as a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME).<\/p>\n<p>CME\u2019s will launch a stream of solar particles into space along the solar wind. <\/p>\n<p>If the stream is directed at the Earth, those charged particles will interact with our magnetic field, transferring energy into our upper atmosphere and causing variations in our magnetic field.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37588305\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/www-foxweather-com-earth-space-114877890.jpg\" alt=\"Fox Weather map showing potential aurora viewing for various North American cities.\" class=\"wp-image-37588305\"  \/>Those as far south as Iowa, Pennsylvania and Oregon could get a chance to see the Northern Lights on Thursday and Friday. FOX Weather<\/p>\n<p>The charged particles of a CME create the beautiful dancing lights <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/05\/science\/stunning-video-shows-northern-lights-as-seen-from-space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">known as Aurora Borealis<\/a> or the Northern Lights. <\/p>\n<p>These lights are typically only seen near the North Pole, but during more intense solar storms, they can be seen as far south as the southern U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Auroras produced from geomagnetic storms provide a beautiful show for those lucky enough to catch a glimpse.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37588309\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/northern-lights-called-aurora-borealis-113364164.jpg\" alt=\"Northern Lights, also called aurora borealis, illuminate the night sky near the town of Thorlakshofn.\" class=\"wp-image-37588309\"  \/>Northern Lights, also called aurora borealis, illuminate the night sky near the town of Thorlakshofn, Iceland, October 12, 2025. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Space Weather Prediction Center said to keep an eye out Thursday evening into Friday morning for the possibility of seeing auroras.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>For the best chances of seeing the northern lights, travel away from city lights into an open area when searching for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those as far south as Iowa, Pennsylvania and Oregon could get a chance to see the Northern Lights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":359246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[12458,159,783,67,132,68,1154],"class_list":{"0":"post-359245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-northern-lights","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-space","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115501432028600520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}