NOAA and NASA

NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center issued a geomagnetic storm watch for Thursday, Dec. 4, after a powerful X1.9 solar flare erupted at 9:49 p.m. EST on Sunday, Nov. 30 from newly emerging sunspot AR4299, NASA said. While the associated coronal mass ejection is not expected to directly strike Earth, NOAA warns minor, manageable impacts to some technological infrastructure are possible and says the disturbance could arrive as early as Dec. 3, with auroras potentially visible from New York to Idaho.