In a rare event, the dazzling phenomenon known as the aurora borealis was visible in parts of Northern California on Thursday night.
The northern lights are most commonly on display in the farthest reaches of the world, and people travel to places like Iceland and Greenland to see them, but according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a geomagnetic storm made the phenomenon visible as far south as Alabama, as well as Northern California, on the night of March 23.
Greg Williams, president of the Shasta Astronomy Club, said that a geomagnetic storm is a fancy way to say the"sun burped." "It threw off a little bit extra charged particles in the solar winds, and those particles interacted with the Earth’s magnetic field," Williams went on. These geomagnetic storms drive the northern lights, and this particular event was classified as a G4 on a scale from G1 to G5. The peak was last night between 8 and 11 p.m. If you missed the lights last night in California, you're out of luck.Dakota Snyder photographed the Aurora Borealis on a flight from Los Angeles to Phoenix.
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