Northern lights should be visible on Thanksgiving and Black Friday from New York to Idaho thanks to an incoming solar storm, according to NOAA.

The northern lights may be visible as far south as New York and Idaho in the coming days thanks to a geomagnetic storm roiling over Earth. These aurorae will result from the arrival of a coronal mass ejection (CME) flung out from one of the sun's sunspots,

A series of geomagnetic storms are expected later in the week, pulling the northern lights further south to more states.

The nostalgia-fueled production has been the most-watched entertainment program in the United States for the past three years, ahead of the Oscars and the World Series.

There's no specific threat to the biggest Thanksgiving celebration in the country, but authorities from the NYPD up to the federal government are on alert.