Another reason to love the last weeks of summer: You may be able to see the northern lights tonight and tomorrow night in over a dozen northern states.

If you missed the recent Perseid meteor shower, don’t fret, this light show is forecast to run Monday, August 18 through Wednesday, August 20, in Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Alaska, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center.

The agency’s three-day forecast is predicting minor, G1 geomagnetic storms (on a scale of G1 to G5). During these storms, a stream of solar wind from a coronal hole on the sun creates the auroras—or swaths of blue, green, and purple in the sky—wh

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