Another solar storm hitting Earth this weekend could produce northern lights in parts of the United States. But will the glow of the aurora borealis be visible in the tri-state area?
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a Geomagnetic Storm Watch for Friday, May 31 and Saturday, June 1. During a geomagnetic storm, outbursts of plasma from solar flares can occur. Each eruption, known as a coronal mass ejection, can contain billions of tons of plasma and magnetic field from the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona.If strong enough, the outbursts can interfere with radio transmissions or cause outages to GPS satellites.
NOAA says the solar flare could make for great aurora viewing over some northern and upper Midwest states from New York to Idaho.Unfortunately, it's looking like you'd have to be near the U.S.-Canada border to get a view of the Northern Lights tonight, with the NY-metro area not in the aurora viewing range.
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