Update: Northern Lights Alert As 2025’s First Geomagnetic Storm Begins
Space weather forecasts have the Northern Lights possibly upstaging New Year’s Eve parties across as many as 17 northern and Midwest U.S. states in the U.S. There's been a frenzy of solar flares from the sun's surface in the last few days, most notably an X-class event on Dec. 29 that hurled two clouds of charged particles in Earth's direction.