A severe geomagnetic storm offered some Louisianans a glimpse at a sight rarely seen this far south Tuesday night: the northern lights.

A powerful coronal mass ejection — the eruption of solar material and magnetic fields — was expected to begin impacting Earth at around midday Wednesday, according to the Space Weather Prediction Center. When solar material and magnetic fields arrive at Earth, they can create geomagnetic storms so intense that power grids, navigation services and other critical technology are weakened.

But the storms can also enable the brilliant glow of the auroras to extend far beyond their typical polar regions, and Americans across the country took to social media Tuesday night to post photos of red and green lights dancing in the night sky.

That included resident

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