{"id":129241,"date":"2025-11-12T13:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/129241\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:17:24","slug":"geomagnetic-storm-brings-dazzling-northern-lights-to-u-s-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/129241\/","title":{"rendered":"Geomagnetic storm brings dazzling northern lights to U.S. skies"},"content":{"rendered":"

A surge in energized solar particles hurling towards the Earth is lighting up the skies as far south as Florida with dazzling displays, which meteorologists say is powerful enough to knock out a few radios.<\/p>\n

The red, purple and green hues colored skies in Alabama, Ohio and Texas, and forecasters at the Space Weather Prediction Center have said the geomagnetic storm could intensify as the “final and most energetic CME,” meaning coronal mass ejection, is yet to arrive and could reach Earth on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\"AuroraThe northern lights visible over Minneapolis, Minnesota, due to a major geomagnetic storm and heightened solar activity.Steven Garcia \/ Reuters<\/p>\n

A CME is an eruption of massive clouds of protons, electrons, and magnetic fields from the Sun\u2019s outer atmosphere at very high speeds.<\/p>\n

When it reaches the Earth\u2019s magnetic field, also called the magnetosphere, it collides with the particles around the planet, producing colorful light known as aurora borealis in the northern hemisphere and aurora australis in the southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n

\"SolarThe Aurora Borealis lights up the night sky over Monroe, Wisconsin, on Tuesday.Ross Harried \/ NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Shawn Dahl, a forecaster at NOAA\u2019s Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado, said two CMEs had already reached Earth, resulting in a geomagnetic storm which reached G4 \u2014 the second-highest rating on a five-step scale.<\/p>\n

The overall strength of the magnetic field from the passing CMEs was “not only eight times stronger than what\u2019s normal but is also favorable at the moment for continued activity,\u201d Dahl said in a video posted on X<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Forecasters warned the magnetic storm could cause power fluctuations, GPS degradation and intermittent disruptions to radios.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe northern lights seen in Athens, Ohio on Tuesday night.Ellie Beck-Aden<\/p>\n

\u201cWatches at this level are very rare,\u201d the Space Weather Prediction Center said in an advisory. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that the \u2018heart\u2019 of the current CME \u2014 the magnetic cloud \u2014 is passing over the Earth and will continue to do so through the overnight hours,\u201d the agency said early Wednesday. <\/p>\n

With the third, stronger CME expected to reach the Earth on Wednesday, an aurora could be visible even further south.<\/p>\n

While the second-highest level advisory was still in effect for another few hours, Dahl said it was possible this could reach G5, the highest rating. <\/p>\n

\"AuroraThe Aurora Borealis over Minneapolis, Minnesota.Steven Garcia \/ via Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A surge in energized solar particles hurling towards the Earth is lighting up the skies as far south…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-129241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}