ByJamie Carter,
Senior Contributor.
The northern lights could be visible across as many as 16 northern states in the U.S. on Sunday, Nov. 9, into Monday, Nov. 10, with a G2 geomagnetic storm being forecast by space weather experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It comes in the wake of a trio of X-class solar flares, the latest an X1.7 event on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 9.
The latest NOAA forecast includes an intensity o f around Kp 6 (the Kp index runs from 0 to 9) for Sunday night, indicating the northern lights may be visible from northern U.S. states.
A geomagnetic storm rated G2 is predicted on a scale of G1-G5, with the most likely timings being in the three hours after 10:00 p.m. PST on Sunday, Nov. 9 and after 1:00 a.m. EST on Monday, Nov. 10.
