Depending on where you live, you could see one helluva light show tonight...

“This is going to be a great night to view the lights where skies are clear,” said Shawn Dahl, a coordinator at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center. Clear skies are expected across much of the Pacific Northwest, Northern California, the Midwest, and parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Ohio Valley, making them prime viewing spots. 

“New York City isn’t looking great,” Peter Mullinax of the National Weather Service said today. The aurora is triggered when a burst of material from the sun, called a “coronal mass ejection,” smashes into Earth’s magnetic field. 

 

This specific storm is hitting hard enough to reach G4 levels, one notch below the most extreme level, experts said. Usually, the lights are only visible if you take a trek to Iceland or Greenland.

 

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