INDIANAPOLIS -- A powerful sun storm earlier this week means there's a better than normal chance that the northern lights could be visible in Indiana Wednesday night.
According to space.com, the sun blasted out a huge cloud of coronal mass ejection on Monday that’s expected to slam into the earth overnight Wednesday, triggering strong geomagnetic storms.
Those are the same storms that supercharge Earth’s auroras, the dancing color also known as the northern and southern lights.
The aurora borealis should be visible late Wednesday into early Thursday morning from Washington and Idaho in the west to Indiana and Ohio in the Midwest and New England in the northeast, according to the NOAA.
One downside is that Wednesday night’s moon will also be full, which may dampen some of the light show.
You can track the northern lights and see if they're likely to reach your location, using SWPC's30-minuteauroraforecast tool.
For your best chance at seeing the northern lights, plan to watch the sky between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. Active periods are typically about 30 minutes long and occur every two hours.
Have a picture of the Northern Lights? Post them here.
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