Missed The Northern Lights? You May Have A Chance To See Them Again

Many Residents of the Eastern United States caught a glimpse of the northern lights on Thursday night.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that many eastern states, such as New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and even Florida, could catch a glimpse of the aurora borealis.

The Northern Lights, however, may come back again tonight.

Weather experts have predicted the colorful lights may be visible again on Friday night across northern states such as North Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota.

The northern lights last night over my mom’s house in Hyannis Port. pic.twitter.com/VhYpoqVqZJ

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northern lights make it down to the capitol building in washington dc pic.twitter.com/e1lwKIzRGi

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FYI most photos you see of the aurora/northern lights taken in the northeast US are dramatically exaggerated due to night mode on iPhones (longer exposure) – naked eye visibility is closer to the video pic.twitter.com/cBvgdK6cub

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Check out what The Daily Mail reported:

The northern lights may continue to dazzle skies across northern US states Friday evening after a blast of solar particles and radiation struck Earth.

A severe geomagnetic storm hit our planet yesterday, bringing the aurora as far as Key Largo, Florida, and many Americans could see a second round of the phenomenon.

Experts have predicted that the colorful lights will visible Friday night across northern states such as Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota.

The best time to see the northern lights is between 10pm and 2am local time.

Your smartphone camera can help you get a better view. Simply point your camera at the sky and watch the aurora appear on the screen.

This spectacle – also known as the aurora borealis – is a natural light show that occurs when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field, decorating the night sky with vibrant curtains of green, pink, red, yellow, blue and violet.

Aurora are most commonly seen in the auroral zone – a region within 1,550 miles of the North Pole. Typically, the lights can only be seen in areas including Scandinavia, Alaska and Iceland.

But geomagnetic storms can make them appear further south.

Another Shot of Last Night’s Northern Lights in Cleveland, Ohio pic.twitter.com/rugDd0blUk

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Per Forbes:

A swath of states in the northern U.S. could get another chance to see the northern lights Friday night, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast, after a geomagnetic storm brought the aurora borealis farther south.

NOAA forecast a KP index of five for Friday night, meaning the aurora borealis will become brighter and there is a chance the lights may be more active.

The event will allow the aurora borealis to be “quite pleasing to look at” for anyone north of the viewing line, NOAA said.

The viewing line is forecast to reach as low as the northern edge of Iowa, though NOAA suggests people be as far north of the line as possible to have a better chance at seeing the northern lights.

Earlier this week, NOAA issued a severe geomagnetic storm watch, an event the agency said could impact critical infrastructure like power grids, GPS and radio disruption, while also causing aurora borealis to appear as far south as Alabama on Thursday.