CLEVELAND, Ohio — The northern lights could make a rare appearance over Northeast Ohio Tuesday night as a series of solar eruptions sends a wave of energy toward Earth’s magnetic field.

Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center have issued a G3 (strong) geomagnetic storm watch , meaning auroras may extend much farther south than usual, possibly visible from 21 U.S. states late Tuesday into early Wednesday.

The heightened solar activity follows a series of coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, that launched into space on Sunday and Monday. The bursts of plasma and magnetic fields from the sun are expected to reach Earth between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, potentially interacting with the planet’s magnetic field to create t

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