{"id":107070,"date":"2026-01-21T12:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/107070\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:07:18","slug":"northern-lights-could-be-visible-again-tonight-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/107070\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern lights could be visible again tonight in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strong geomagnetic storm that struck Earth on Monday could mean that the northern lights could be visible in New York again on Tuesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service issued a severe geomagnetic storm alert on Monday when models showed a large\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/phenomena\/coronal-mass-ejections\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coronal mass ejection<\/a>\u00a0originating from a solar flare on Jan 18. The fastest Earth-directed CMEs can reach our planet in as little as 15 to 18 hours.<\/p>\n<p>According to NOAA, the shockwave from the CME struck the planet at 2:38 p.m. Monday. Residual effects could keep the auroras around for another night.<\/p>\n<p>The event, according to NOAA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/news\/update-g4-severe-geomagnetic-storm-alert-issued\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Space Weather Prediction Center<\/a>, comes amid an intense cycle of geomagnetic and solar radiation storms that peaked in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A geomagnetic storm is a disruption of the Earth\u2019s magnetosphere triggered by an energy transfer from solar winds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/phenomena\/geomagnetic-storms\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">According to NOAA<\/a>, these storms arise from irregularities in the solar wind that cause substantial changes to our magnetospheric currents, plasmas, and fields. The\u00a0conditions for geomagnetic storms involve prolonged periods\u00a0\u2014 many hours\u00a0\u2014 of high-speed solar wind, with a southward-directed magnetic field. This opposite direction to Earth\u2019s magnetic field eases the energy transfer from the solar wind into Earth\u2019s magnetosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The largest storms that result from these conditions are associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/phenomena\/coronal-mass-ejections\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coronal mass ejections<\/a>. Storms also result in changes in the Earth\u2019s radiation belts and changes in the ionosphere, including heating the upper atmospheric region called the thermosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The sun operates on an 11-year cycle with roughly 5\u00bd years of decreasing intensity followed by the same amount of time of increasing activity. The sun\u2019s current trajectory peaked at a \u201csolar maximum\u201d in May 2025, according to\u00a0NOAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A strong geomagnetic storm that struck Earth on Monday could mean that the northern lights could be visible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[30394,844,610,75,84,83,9,24,63,530,133],"class_list":["post-107070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-alco","tag-latestnews","tag-local","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-state","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}