If December night skies weren’t already putting on a show with a meteor shower and a supermoon — just to name some — northern lights could possibly grace the D.C. region just after midnight toward dawn Tuesday.

On Sunday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Prediction Center issued a forecast for a strong (G3) geomagnetic storm for Tuesday.

This event will not be like what the D.C. region experienced in November , when aurora borealis was visible for several nights.

This forecast G3 geomagnetic storm was caused by a coronal mass ejection, or CME, which in turn was caused by a strong solar flare .

The possible aurora sighting, if the lights do indeed appear, would not reach the level of the historic aurora event that took place on May 10, 2024,

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