By Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com
Published: 23:36 BST, 14 May 2019 | Updated: 23:43 BST, 14 May 2019
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A geomagnetic storm is headed toward Earth’s atmosphere and could bring back-to-back auroras in the north three nights in a row.
The NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center issued a storm watch earlier this week for Wednesday into Thursday and has since extended the forecast into Friday.
It means Earth could be feeling minor effects from a series of coronal mass ejections emitted by the sun since May 10, including weak power grid disturbances.
The incoming storm also means people in some northern latitudes, including parts of the United States, could have a chance to spot the Northern Lights.
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At its strongest, the storm will reach the G2 or moderate level, which poses little threat to activities on the ground. It will, however, spur brilliant light displays also known as the Northern Lights visible to northern latitudes, between green and yellow lines in the map above
The Northern and Southern Lights are natural light spectacles triggered in our atmosphere that are also known as the 'Auroras'.
There are two types of Aurora - Aurora Borealis, which means 'dawn of the north', and Aurora Australis, 'dawn of the south.'
The displays light up when electrically charged particles from the sun enter the Earth’s atmosphere.
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