The northern lights are expected to be visible over much of the northern half of the country Thursday, including in Rhode Island, according to a prediction from NOAA. "The aurora may become visible over much of the northern half of the country, and maybe as far south as Alabama to northern California," NOAA said.

An intense solar storm, at least the third so far this week, is making the Northern Lights shine bright again in the southern parts of New England Thursday night. Forecasters with the Space Weather Prediction Center say strong geomagnetic storms sparked by a hurling coronal mass ejection — high energy plasma that erupted from the sun around 10 p.

BOSTON - The northern lights could put once again put on a show in Massachusetts tonight and Friday night, according to the latest aurora forecast. You could say New England is becoming the "new Iceland.