CINCINNATI — It's the story that is likely flooding your social media feed this morning, the auroras in the Tuesday evening sky.

Between 8:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. Tuesday, the northern lights started to show up in our sky.

Photos came in quickly from across the Tri-State.

The auroras are visible because of a what is called a"severe geomagnetic storm", classified as a G4 storm. This came from two separate events from the sun this week.

A "severe" geomagnetic storm like this can bring auroras much farther south into the United States. Reports of auroras have been coming in from places in Florida, Arizona and Texas.

We've reached out to local astronomer Dean Regas to hear more about this event and any potential for the auroras to be seen again Wednesday evening. Once we hear back from Dean,

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