CAMERON COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — The Northern Lights shined shiny into Northern/Central Pennsylvania Friday morning.
One other geomagnetic storm has hit Earth leaving the Northern Lights to achieve additional south into the U.S. than regular. As of 10:18 a.m. Friday (June 28), NOAA mentioned the storm reached “G4” which is “extreme” on its storm scale.
Thursday night time into Friday morning, viewer Christy Pifer and her son have been in Cameron County and caught some long-exposure photographs of the aerial mild present, seen beneath.
Whereas NOAA’s Northern Lights map reveals the lights coming into the U.S. once more Friday night time into Saturday morning, it predicts it’ll solely attain into the northern US, reminiscent of New York, Maine and Minnesota.
The Northern Lights are a phenomena that happen when the solar blasts geomagnetic storms in the direction of Earth. These particles conflict with the planet’s magnetic area and ambiance, inflicting the sunshine present — usually in the direction of the upper latitudes of the northern hemisphere.