The northern lights will inject additional dazzle for some across the U.S. this New Year's Eve. The big picture: An incoming solar storm on Tuesday night will provide aurora viewers in many northern states and "some of the lower Midwest to Oregon" one last chance to catch the lights this year,

The northern lights could once again grace US skies over the coming days. A minor geomagnetic storm is projected to impact Earth on Saturday and Sunday following the effects of a recent coronal mass ejection: plasma and magnetic field that is expelled from the sun.

But our chances of catching it may be affected by weather conditions, as the Met Office said in a statement ( via Manchester Evening News): "A coronal mass ejection (CME) which left the Sun early on 29 December, is expected to arrive on New Year’s Eve. But, although the Northern Lights may be in place, visibility could hamper any sightings."

Here's how to watch the northern lights predicted to color the night sky on New Year's Eve this year. See the lights on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.

A solar storm which hit the Earth on New Year's Day brought the first strong display of the Northern Lights across Wales in 2025. Images of bright purple and pink coloured aurora were captured from Denbighshire to Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, and Swansea on Wednesday night.

There's going to be yet another chance to see the Northern Lights in Maine tonight. There have been viewing opportunities all week after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center issued an alert Sunday night that the aurora borealis may be visible at high latitudes on Dec.

That same activity can lead to aurorae, however, such as the northern and southern lights. This time around that meant that the northern lights could be seen at relatively low latitudes, including as far south as the midwest.