A minor solar flare that arrived late Tuesday night brought a brilliant display of the Northern Lights to the far northern reaches of the U.S. FOX13
showed the neon green haze of the aurora covering the northern horizon, with occasional pillars and bursts of red and purple lights from his perch on Lake Whatcom in northwestern Washington.
A similar show was spotted just to the southwest in Hansville on the western shores of Puget Sound and Skunk Bay. The nighttime web camera at SkunkBayWeather.com captured an hours-long light show that lasted well into Wednesday morning."A very nice Aurora show last night," said Greg Johnson, who runs the camera.
Vivid Northern Lights displays usually follow a few days after solar events, known as coronal mass ejections or solar flares. The flares bring a barrage of electrons that interact with oxygen and nitrogen in Earth's magnetic field that surrounds the outside of our planet.
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