Northern lights seen over Colorado and Missouri in rare appearance
Gorgeous auroras were seen rippling across the night sky in unusually southern states on Saturday, when a G2-class geomagnetic storm had been predi...
Gorgeous auroras were seen rippling across the night sky in unusually southern states on Saturday, when a G2-class geomagnetic storm had been predicted to hit the Earth. The northern lights were seen across the U.S., including spectacular green lights over Lake Michigan, with a red-hued aurora even being visible using night-time settings on phone cameras as far south as Colorado and Missouri. The northern lights are usually caused by a coronal mass ejection, or CME, slamming into the Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere, but strangely, solar wind data show no clear signs of a CME impact, despite one being predicted for September 2.