Aurora chasers braved the cold nights throughout the fall in Canada in search of the northern lights. Now, a new burst of magnetic radiation from the sun will give them new opportunities to capture the celestial phenomena in the coming days.
A geomagnetic storm is forecast to occur over much of Canada on Nov. 28 and Nov. 29, according to U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), greatly increasing the possibility of a spectacle of lights in the sky. The storm is classified as G1-G2, a “minor to moderate” disturbance of the Earth’s magnetosphere.
The lights will also appear in the U.S. over some of the northern and upper Midwest states from New York to Idaho, the NOAA announced….