{"id":417811,"date":"2026-01-20T02:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/417811\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T02:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:06:10","slug":"intense-geomagnetic-storms-could-make-auroras-visible-in-southern-us-us-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/417811\/","title":{"rendered":"Intense geomagnetic storms could make auroras visible in southern US | US weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The aurora could be visible across Canada and much of the northern tier of US states on Monday night, and possibly even further south, following a major disturbance in the Earth\u2019s magnetic field, a forecast shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The forecast, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s space weather prediction center, comes amid intense geomagnetic and solar radiation storms, said Shawn Dahl, service coordinator at the center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The geomagnetic storms could lead to the aurora being visible far more south than the phenomenon is usually seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">But the storms can also interfere with satellite operations, GPS communications and other infrastructure, according to the US Geological Survey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The intensity of this storm has not been seen in more than two decades, Dahl said. The storm isn\u2019t expected to become much weaker until sometime on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In November, solar storms brought vibrant auroras to parts of Europe including Hungary and the United Kingdom, and as far south in the United States as Kansas, Colorado and Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The aurora could be visible across Canada and much of the northern tier of US states on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-417811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}