Nebraska, Illinois and even New York might get a slight view of the lights. "Aurora can often be observed somewhere on Earth from just after sunset or just before sunrise," the NOAA reported.
Several other states, like Oregon, Wyoming, Nebraska, Illinois, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, could fall within the southern reach of the northern lights' visibility. The NOAA ...
The average annual temperature across the contiguous U.S. was 55.5 degrees F — 3.5 degrees above the 20th-century average — ranking as the nation’s warmest year in NOAA’s 130-year climate record.