You may not realize it, but Earth is being hit by a solar storm today.

The Space Weather Prediction Center issued a "minor" storm watch for Tuesday and Wednesday "due to the arrival of a negative polarity coronal hole high-speed stream." This comes on the heels of three solar flares last week.

When a hole opens on the sun's corona, high-speed solar wind rushes into space, according to NASA. When wind hits the Earth's atmosphere, it interacts with the planet's magnetosphere, creating geomagnetic storms and enhanced auroras at the poles. 

The auroras triggered by Tuesday and Wednesday's geomagnetic storm may appear in northern Michigan and Maine, NASA says.

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The storm may also trigger weak power grid fluctuations and degraded high-frequency radio waves. They can also cause minor damage to Earth-orbiting satellites.

Geomagnetic storms can also affect marine mammals' internal compasses, disorienting them enough to increase the likelihood of beach strandings.