Where Are We Seeing Northern Lights?

When will the next Northern Lights happen? What do they have to do with our communications equipment? Will we see the northern lights in Virginia? On the first episode of Engineering Explained, Kevin Sterne, a senior research associate within Space@VT talks everything northern lights and solar flares.
Virginia Tech's SuperDARN HF Radar Lab coordinates with their radar site in the midwest to collect any and all data relating to solar flares, this helps them study the effects of solar flares on communications equipment, as well as general space weather.