Set your alarms and look up! The northern lights may dazzle over New England tonight. – The Boston Globe

Set your alarms and look up! The northern lights may dazzle over New England tonight.  The Boston GlobeMultiple solar eruptions could spark auroras across the northern US starting tonight  ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and VideosG2 (Moderate) Geomagnetic Storm Watch for 09 Oct  NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (.gov)Northern Lights Forecast: These States Could See Aurora Thursday Night And Friday Morning  ForbesNorthern lights possible across the US this weekend as 3 CMEs head for Earth  Space

NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center is expecting a level G2 moderate geomagnetic storm overnight Thursday into the predawn hours Friday. If you’re willing to lose a little sleep tonight, there could be a pretty good reason to step outside and look to the north. The Northern Lights could make an appearance across New England overnight, thanks to a coronal mass ejection (CME), essentially a cloud of magnetized solar material racing past Earth. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center is expecting a moderate geomagnetic storm, a level G2 out of 5, overnight Thursday into the predawn hours of Friday.

A geomagnetic storm watch of that level can typically extend the visibility of the northern lights as far south as Massachusetts, although some forecasts have the viewing line as far south as New Jersey. It’s never a certainty that a strong geomagnetic storm will occur. It’s always tricky to forecast how strong the CME might be when it erupts from the sun 91 million and 93 million miles away from Earth. “This CME is forecasted to