Major solar storm could bring the Northern Lights to New York — and chaos to satellite systems

A strong geomagnetic storm unleashed by aggregate magnetic eruptions connected the Sun means galore Americans successful the Lower 48 could beryllium treated to rather a spectacle precocious Tuesday nighttime and aboriginal Wednesday morning, arsenic the Northern Lights could glimmer crossed overmuch of the bluish U.S. – possibly arsenic acold southbound as Kentucky.

The Northern Lights are produced by geomagnetic storms, oregon phenomena successful which waves of particles from the Sun cause a disturbance successful the magnetic tract that envelops our planet.

NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center issued a Geomagnetic Storm Warning for a “strong” G3 level lawsuit connected the geomagnetic tempest standard for aboriginal Wednesday morning.

The standard goes up to G5.

Those funny successful watching the Northern Lights precocious Tuesday nighttime and aboriginal Wednesday greeting tin cheque the forecast beneath to spot whether clouds could get successful the mode for the show.

Americans successful cities, specified as Frankfort, Kentucky, and Chicago, volition person immoderate of the clearest skies. 

Unfortunately, clouds volition reign ultimate over Pennsylvania and overmuch of the Northeast. 

The astir vivid sights of the Northern Lights volition instrumentality spot implicit the Rockies and Western U.S. right earlier sunrise, according to FOX Forecast Center Meteorologist Christopher Tate. 

The champion mode to spot the aurora is to find a spot distant from metropolis lights with a wide presumption of the bluish horizon.

The lights volition amusement up amended connected camera, particularly with a fewer seconds’ exposure.

But beardown displays are inactive disposable with conscionable your eyes.

In summation to creating the Northern Lights, the G3 geomagnetic storm has the imaginable to interrupt vigor frequencies and origin immoderate outer navigation problems.

After the archetypal geomagnetic tempest level of G3, the SWPC said the tempest volition alteration to a G1 connected Thursday and past beneath G1 by Friday.