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What a start to 2025! While many celebrated New Year’s Eve with bursts of glittering fireworks, Earth joined the festivities with a natural display of its own: the northern lights. A coronal mass ejection (CME) struck Earth’s magnetic field on Dec. 31 at 11:21 a.m. EST (16:21 GMT), sparking geomagnetic storm conditions and painting the […]
Fireworks won’t be the only thing lighting up the sky during New Year celebrations. A geomagnetic storm could make the northern lights visible across the northern fringe of the United States as early as the sunrise, or after nightfall, on New Year’s Eve, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Another geomagnetic storm could […]
A U.S. diplomat on Tuesday slammed a new report on food security in the Gaza Strip that said famine was “highly likely” in part of the enclave, with the criticism fueling confusion and controversy over a humanitarian crisis that has drawn significant international attention. The report, released on Monday by the Famine Early Warning Systems […]
Millions of people across the Midwest, Northeastern United States and southern Ontario, Canada, were under winter weather warnings Thursday morning as snow squalls moved through ahead of another blast of Arctic temperatures. After a week of bitterly cold temperatures and days of lake-effect snow, another shot of cold air was sweeping through the Northeast after […]
An Arctic blast has brought snow, frost and dangerously cold winds to the northern Plains, Midwest and Great Lakes, creating “very difficult to impossible” travel conditions on one of the busiest days of the year, as millions of Americans head home from their Thanksgiving destinations. Approximately 7 million people are under winter alerts across Wisconsin, […]
An Arctic blast gripped the northern Plains, Midwest and Great Lakes Saturday morning, with millions of Americans under freeze warnings. On Saturday, 16 million are under winter alerts across the Great Lakes and the Central Plains to the Appalachians, while roughly 9 million people are under freeze warnings in the South. The National Weather Service […]
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After enjoying your Thanksgiving dinner this week, look up at the night sky as a solar storm is expected to reach Earth and produce the northern lights. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the aurora borealis should be visible on Thanksgiving and Black Friday in various parts of the northern United States. […]
It’s something “light” for your holiday dinner. A dazzling aurora borealis display is expected to illuminate the Big Apple’s sky on Thanksgiving and Black Friday — giving fresh holiday lights spectacles a run for their money. Stargazers can likely behold the breathtaking northern lights in the Empire State — and as far west as Idaho […]
An ‘extreme’ geomagnetic storm turned the skies pink, red and green in aurora across the US even as far south as Texas and Arizona. Displays of Northern Lights are possible on Thanksgiving and Black Friday for the northern U.S. after NOAA’s space weather forecasters say charged particles from the Sun will create geomagnetic storm conditions. […]