![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760250369_479_960x0.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
A car drives west on Mercer Road as the northern lights fill the sky over the rural landscape in Mercer, Maine on May 10, 2024. (Photo by Michael Seamans\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Getty Images<\/p>\n
The Northern Lights<\/a> may be seen across 12 northern U.S. states and Canada as soon as it gets dark on Sunday, Oct. 12 and into the early hours of Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, according to a forecast<\/a> of a geomagnetic storm from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). It follows a similar prediction<\/a> for Saturday, Oct. 11. <\/p>\n The forecast comes at the same time as two comets are visible<\/a>, solar activity is close to a 23-year high due to the ongoing solar maximum and late-September\u2019s equinox connects the magnetic fields of the sun and Earth, increasing the chances of a geomagnetic storm. <\/p>\n Northern Lights Tonight: What To Expect<\/p>\n The upgraded forecast calls for a G1-rated geomagnetic storm on Sunday, Oct. 12 could push the auroral oval farther south than usual \u2014 making this an alert worth watching.<\/p>\n \u201cThe geomagnetic field is likely to reach active to G1 (Minor) storm Northern Lights Forecast: Where And When<\/p>\n NOAA\u2019s latest aurora viewlines<\/a> indicate that aurora displays are a possibility in northern U.S. states and Canada, with 12 U.S. states having a chance after dark on Oct. 12.<\/p>\n U.S. states that may see aurora include Alaska and (northerly parts of) Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York and Maine.<\/p>\n NOAA’s aurora viewline for Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. <\/p>\n NOAANorthern Lights Alert: Latest Updates <\/p>\n All forecasts for the aurora must be treated with caution. To check visibility in real time, use NOAA\u2019s 30-minute aurora forecast<\/a>, or download apps such as Aurora Now, My Aurora Forecast or Glendale Aurora for up-to-the-minute alerts and live solar wind data.<\/p>\n
\nlevels over 11-13 Oct due to the onset of a recurrent, negative polarity CH
\nHSS,\u201d states<\/a> NOAA. That means a fast solar wind flowing out of a hole in the sun\u2019s outer atmosphere \u2014 the corona \u2014 which raises the chance of auroras. The geomagnetic storm will begin when Earth enters a high-speed stream of solar wind, according to Spaceweather.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n