A spate of solar activity means that the northern lights may be visible as far south as Oregon, Nebraska and Pennsylvania this weekend.

Comments posted to the social media posts for the watches indicate that people believe the auroras will be viewed much farther to south, considering that Texas saw northern lights when an X8.7 solar flare happened in May.

Northern Lights may be putting on a show over the weekend for the northern areas of the country. The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a Geomagnetic Storm Watch for the northern hemisphere for Oct.

The Northern Lights can potentially be seen from several northern U.S. states Saturday night, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration update,

A pair of strong geomagnetic storms could produce a spectacular northern lights show for millions of Americans again this weekend, space forecasters say. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center issued “strong” geomagnetic storm watches following recent explosions on the sun that triggered multiple

The sun emitted its most powerful solar flare in seven years on Thursday night, a cosmic event forecasted to create views of the northern lights across the U.S. this weekend, reports Live Science. Views of the northern lights are most likely to be visible this weekend in northern U.

CharlotteFive editor Melissa Oyler captured this image of the northern lights late Friday, May 10, 2024, from the NoDa section of Charlotte. MELISSA OYLER [email protected] The northern lights dazzled much of the southeastern U.