To Scandinavia’s Sami people, the Northern Lights inspire fear and respect. Children should never tease the lights, elders have said, lest the aurora swoop down and carry them into the skies.

The Northern Lights, which are called Wawatay by the Ojibwe, dance across the sky over this U.S. national park as often as 200 nights every year.

Just over a year ago, on May 10, 2024, the aurora borealis lit up the skies worldwide due to an extreme geomagnetic storm.The D.C. region had several glorious nights of the northern lights in 2024.

How to Watch the Northern Lights for the Second Time this Week. The auras are predicted to be "quite pleasing to look at" this weekend based on the Kp scale, and are just one notch away from being ...

A powerful geomagnetic storm in the forecast for Sunday night could make the colorful northern lights visible across parts of the U.S., according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

The northern lights display, also known as the aurora borealis, is set off by geomagnetic storms, which are caused by coronal mass ejections, or eruptions of materials on the sun’s surface.

There are three other significant recordings of northern lights being visible in Florida, two in the ‘80s and once in the 1850s. In March of 1989, the aurora borealis was visible from ...

People in parts of the U.S. may be able to see Northern lights Monday night — or at least use a smartphone cameras to reveal hints of the aurora not visible to the naked eye.

The northern lights forecast for Monday, June 2, 2025, as of Sunday, June 1, 2025. (SWPC) If conditions strengthen, the aurora could appear even further south.