Northern Lights shine over Central Pennsylvania

CAMERON COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — The Northern Lights shined bright into Northern/Central Pennsylvania Friday morning.

Another geomagnetic storm has hit Earth leaving the Northern Lights to reach further south into the U.S. than normal. As of 10:18 a.m. Friday (June 28), NOAA said the storm reached “G4” which is “severe” on its storm scale.

Thursday night into Friday morning, viewer Christy Pifer and her son were in Cameron County and caught some long-exposure photos of the aerial light show, seen below.

While NOAA’s Northern Lights map shows the lights coming into the U.S. again Friday night into Saturday morning, it predicts it’ll only reach into the northern US, such as New York, Maine and Minnesota.

The Northern Lights are a phenomena that occur when the sun blasts geomagnetic storms towards Earth. These particles clash with the planet’s magnetic field and atmosphere, causing the light show — typically towards the higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere.