By Kirsten Ripper & Euronews with AP, MDR, Washington Times
In the United States, the weather monitoring agency has announced that northern lights could be visible over the northern United States and Canada, as strong geomagnetic storms are expected. These could also light up the skies over Germany, especially in the north and along the coasts, in the night from 5 to 6 June. As hardly any cloud cover was forecast for Friday night into Saturday, the chances are good of catching a glimpse of an impressive aurora borealis.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued a warning of a G3 (strong) geomagnetic storm. Isolated phases could even reach G4 level (very strong). As a result, the northern lights are expected to be visible in a total of 23 US states in the Northeast, Midwest and West, according to the Washington Times.
The last time spectacular northern lights were seen in Germany was in January, when the aurora lit up the night sky.
Numerous websites that monitor solar storms currently rate the probability as high.
