Northern Oregon might catch a faint glimpse of the Northern Lights late Sunday night or early Monday morning, forecasters with the National Weather Service said.

While the best views of the lights will be in Washington, those far enough north and away from light pollution have a small chance of seeing the show.

There is a chance that early next week (Sunday Night/Monday Morning), our area might see the Aurora because of a Coronal... Posted by US National Weather Service Portland Oregon on Friday, July 14, 2017

"If you get far enough out away from the city, off in the mountains, in the north, you could maybe see it," National Weather Service forecaster Clinton Rocky said. "We're on the ragged edge of what you can see."

The lights are expected to come as the result of a geomagnetic storm caused by giant clouds of solar plasma produced by solar flares.

--Olivia Dimmer

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