{"id":198894,"date":"2025-12-24T00:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/198894\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T00:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:47:13","slug":"northern-lights-may-be-visible-in-the-us-see-the-list-of-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/198894\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern lights may be visible in the US. See the list of states."},"content":{"rendered":"

The northern lights could provide a dazzling pre-Christmas<\/a> show over parts of 10 states overnight Dec. 22.<\/p>\n

A minor geomagnetic storm<\/a> caused by strong solar winds<\/a> could allow the aurora borealis to be seen as far south as southern Minnesota, according to the Space Weather Prediction Center.<\/p>\n

Forecasters say the event is caused by a coronal mass ejection<\/a>, a large expulsion of plasma and magnetic field from the sun’s corona, that will pass by Earth after occurring on Dec. 20. The winds could continue through Dec. 24, giving Nochebuena<\/a> a colorful astral backdrop.<\/p>\n

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The prediction center says\u00a0the best time to view the northern lights<\/a>\u00a0will be between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. local time. It adds that moving away from light pollution provides a better opportunity for seeing the lights.<\/p>\n

Here’s where the northern lights might be seen on Dec. 22.<\/p>\n

See northern lights forecast\"A<\/p>\n

A northern lights forecast for Dec. 22, 2025 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center.<\/p>\n

States that may see the northern lights on Dec. 22\"\"<\/p>\n

A small group takes in a northern lights show looking out over Barnstable Harbor, Massachusetts in a 30-second time exposure on Nov. 11, 2025.<\/p>\n

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The northern lights glow above Ankeny, Iowa on Nov. 11, 2025.<\/p>\n

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The northern lights are seen over Bayside, Wisconsin on Nov. 11, 2025.<\/p>\n

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The northern lights – aurora borealis – light up the night sky east of Denver, Colorado, on Nov. 11, 2025.<\/p>\n

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Jordan Perrigo watches the northern lights shimmer over Hulah Lake in northern Oklahoma on Nov. 11, 2025, during a rare geomagnetic storm visible to the naked eye.<\/p>\n

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The northern lights – aurora borealis – light up the night sky east of Denver, Colorado, on Nov. 11, 2025.<\/p>\n

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A powerful geomagnetic storm triggered a light show across much of North America \u2013 seen here east of Denver, Colorado \u2013 on the night of Nov. 11, 2025.<\/p>\n

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The northern lights were visible from Florida’s Space Coast late on the evening of Nov. 11. on the Space Coast late Tuesday evening and early afternoon Wednesday, November 12,<\/p>\n

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A car crosses Hulah Dam under the glow of the northern lights on Nov. 11, 2025, during a rare aurora sighting in northern Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

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Light pollution did not stop the northern lights from visiting Florida’s Space Coast on Nov. 11.<\/p>\n

Northern lights dazzle as far south as Florida during rare geomagnetic storm<\/p>\n

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A small group takes in a northern lights show looking out over Barnstable Harbor, Massachusetts in a 30-second time exposure on Nov. 11, 2025.<\/p>\n

The Space Weather Center’s forecast indicates that the northern lights could be seen in parts of the following states:<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Northern lights may be seen in 10 states. See the list<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The northern lights could provide a dazzling pre-Christmas show over parts of 10 states overnight Dec. 22. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,8247,69,147,122492,122491],"class_list":{"0":"post-198894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-northern-lights","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-southern-minnesota","15":"tag-space-weather-prediction-center"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}