Northern lights visible across U.S., even reaching the deep south, due to solar storm
Dazzling colors lit up the night sky over the United States as the aurora borealis was visible as far south as Florida and even possibly Hawaii. NBC News’ George Solis speaks with a planetarium director to learn more about what’s causing the spectacle in the sky.
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#NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis #Weather
Skinner: Good God what is happening in there?! Seymour: Aurora borealis
What
At this time of year?! At this time of day?! In this part of the country?! . . .
Internet went out for 10 minutes just as it was getting started !
Ours did that on the 3rd 2 solar flares happened. An X class over China armt like 1039pm then another at 4am closer to the states. My internet went out almost 20 mins later.
Mine didn’t go out at all, that I know of
Wait until the grid out the country dies
@@dbrock420mine didn't either
The website that gives all the data on atmospheric conditions regarding solar storms kept going down on Friday and Saturday. I'm guessing more internet traffic than their servers could handle
In New Zealand last night the clear crisp winter skies meant a spectacular show of the Southern Lights Aurora Australis.
Sixteen times the size of Earth?! That little spot? The scale of the universe is so incomprehensible. And our sun isn't even one of the largest in space
Our sun is a little pin point compared to a star like vy canis majoris
It's all nonsense
@@scottd7222 sure thing expert
@@Dannyboy16434UY Scuti is larger
@@scottd7222Sorry to burst your bubble, but the world wasn't created in 7 days.
Hi from California! It's my dream to see these in person. I swear, it looks like magic...
In U P of Michigan in the pitch black of night it looks like the aliens are landing and I don’t even believe in aliens 😂
Southern or northern?
@@wildcat-ne3nf can we see it in the Southern of California?
It truly is! 😱😱😱😱
RI .. We had cloud cover. Looks more clear tonight but nothing 😢
Our universe just beautiful
World*
@@scottd7222Universe is beyond the world
Fr
everywhere except where i live haha
Thunderstorms here
😂😂 facts
I live on the Gulf Coast in Northwest Florida. I didn't see anything. Bummer.
Where.....Charlotte 😂
Watching it from Michigan!
Location?
Saturday night? Now? I’m in Chicago and I’m looking north! I don’t see it!
I'm in toledo ohio and saw it last night even with the city lights. I see nothing now but I guess it's supposed to be later tonight than last night. 🤷♂️
@@doknoxI’m in Dayton, but I haven’t seen it
I saw it 20 years ago or better than 20 years ago. I was driving to Stevens Point from Wausau Wisconsin. It was about 4 in the morning. I saw it in the sky, and it blew my mind. I had to pull over and got out of my car. I validated what I saw with a couple of pilots who were staying at the hotel where I was working.
this is on my bucket list to see them. and last night it rained all day and night here so there is no way we could had seen them here in sc
The aurora is beautiful🤩
Watching from Edinburgh Scotland 🏴
Northern lights visible across U.S., even reaching the deep south, due to solar storm 0048am 12.5.24 are yer? i just walked outside and see a few clouds and nothing amazingly insane as a pop show in th sky... shame. good luck!!! p.s evidence of magnetic pole shift of north and south coming together....
Watching from Aberdeenshire, was hoping to see it again tonight but too cloudy
UK has aliens 👽👾
When these things begin to come to pass, then look up. Luke 21:28
@@ayoolukoga9829 ; Give up on your mid-evil, insecure subjective nonsense, you are tiresome and childish.
At this time of day? At this time of year? In this part of the country?
This looks beautiful aurora! 😊
Saw it last night in Hawaii ,!
I saw it in Fairbanks on December 29, 2023, was my second trip to Fairbanks to see it, was definitely worth it. What a great opportunity for everyone to experience this spectacle
It was here in Tenn last night ❤
I'm in Knoxville... I hope I get to see them.
My mom got a picture from Knoxville last night! Take a picture, your camera might capture what your eyes can’t see!
MY NEPHEW LIVES IN TNN N MAN IT WAS SPECTACULAR!!!!💜
@@labaccident2010 ..,..Hi....I have a local News channel on my phone and they had posted a picture of them. There is a window close to my bed. Maybe they will be on that side of the house, I hope...
Too much light pollution and a hill directly north of me makes it impossible :(
Here too, will try again tonight.
You may know this already, but just in case you don't, you can't always see it with the naked eye. Try putting your phone camera in dark mode and take a picture towards the northern sky. You might get lucky. I didn't know that till last night. I'm in a town with too much light and trees to my north but when I saw someone comment that on Facebook I tried it and I got a little color. Nothing like a lot of people are posting but it was something, even though the sky just looked black to me. I'm still not checking it off my bucket list yet though.
@divergirl8296 I'll try that. We had cloud cover last night in RI. Seems clearer now, but nothing doing here. I've got a view of the water from my back deck, can see the bridge light, the moon, a few stars...nothing
Take a drive
I KNOW ITS SO BRIGHT BY MY HOUSE ITS LIKE I LIVE ON A FOOTBALLL FIELD 😞
I saw the northern lights in the Pacific northwest about 30 years ago!
Northeastern Ohio, last night clear, saw a little purple haze in the sky but that's it, wish I could have seen more.
So you would think they would be even better in Alaska right ? Wrong. Overcast forecasted all week.
watching from Canada ❤
No you're not. It's all fake
@@Heather-lg4gq So would that mean you're fake as well?
@@BIG-WhoShotYa The northern lights are a lie perpetuated by the government. If you're happy believing lies, be my guest.
I love it 😊 Most amazingly beautiful
A delightful sight in northern Canada 🇨🇦.
Watching from Brooklyn New York
Did you actually see it?
@@SHyoutube. what on tv?
@@Kikisoto28light pollution in dyker heights but can you see it?
cant see it bruh in queens, my neighborhood has minimum city lighjt but cant see it.
@@jamesrobloxgamingchannel8648 on KZhead?
You guys are lucky
unfortunately it was cloudy all night here in the mid-atlantic. And its gonna be raining all night tonight too.
My wife and I have been watching this evening from Billings,MT absolutely breathtaking!
What a wonderful way to spend the evening with somebody you love. Once in a lifetime event.
SO PRETTY!! Wish I could have seen it were I was.
Awesome spectacle!
Im from uk. I kept checking all night with my phone camera pointing up at the sky tryna fet a glimpse but nothing 😂 i give up
Beautiful
Surreal!
I could see by eye outside Flagstaff AZ - uploaded 2 pretty good 4K videos of this - was Awesome show
I saw them here near Prescott. Like giant white pillars going magnetic north. I took a photo with my phones infrared night mode and it came out bright pink with bright purple pillars!. I didn't even know what it was until today. I though it was like ice refraction or something....
It was AMAZING here in Washington!!! Go outside tonight, you don’t want to miss it!
The state or dc?
Washington state !!
I just went out in Charlotte, NC at 10pm, nothing
I'll be watching in Oregon. I hope it shows up.
@@brianSalem541 No clouds for a change, that never happens.
Unfortunately it rained where I live in northern Michigan.
Ditto for us. My wife and I are hoping we might be able to see something tonight, since it's clear here today.
Clouds all weekend here in Connecticut
@@michaelp2952RI. Same😢
Saw them over my house in Las Vegas!
At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?
Yes
@@xXgoturpistolaXx may I see it?
No
Greetings from Toledo Washington
Olympic peninsula! 🥂💜🩷💚
Can you imagine Disney living it up with their firework shows with the northern lights in the background?
It has been a glorious experience!
It was seen all the way south in Naples, Florida last night, a shame we couldn't see it tonight.
I had no clue this was even going on until Saturday evening. I can't believe I was inside my house and I have no clue the Aurora was going on outside.😭😭😭
SO BEAUTIFUL
Use your cameras!
Seeing an eclipse over a month ago, and this? This is crazy!
I checked this event and what do we have to do?
Saw it in Washington State:) Didn't think I could
Haven’t seen anything yet in south central Indiana
Attempting to watch it from Tampa Bay! 🤞
How did it turn out? I live on the Gulf Coast in Northwest Florida. I didn't see anything.
I didn’t see anything unfortunately, 😔
Saw them last night in Niagara Falls Canada!
BEST EXPLANATION I'VE FOUND. THANKQ ❤️
Can't see it at all tonight in Pennsylvania. 😢
Don’t give up, the sky is clearing. I’m outside and I’ll be on watch. I missed a lot of it last night. We also have tomorrow night as well!
RI, nada 😢
I use to see that all the time in Alaska 😎
So cool.
I stayed up until sunrise to watch them! They were immaculate!!! God is AMAZING!!!!🤩🙌❤
It was beautiful ❤
Bro’s bout to hit 10m he’s at 9.99M subs
Everybody Comes to Acton Montana to Look at This as WELL' Because its so Dark here at Night...
Beautiful lights ⭐
“The sun is really active right now” 0:27
Good catch.
The sun 🌞 ☀️ is full of surprises 😮 ✨️ 😄 ☺️ 😀 🙂
Local South Carolina forecasters had no clue. Really?
So fortunate ! Could see the real but rare beautiful phenomenon of "Northernlight" in sky !
me living near Antartica 😭
In Syracuse NY...not good sky conditions..but at least I saw the Total Solar Eclipse
Sky conditions also aren't that good right now down here in Long Island 🥲
I got a picture from Hawaii not sure but it was pitch black pointed iPhone north and got a photo of something really not sure but man it was dark
so amazing and beautiful😍
Anyone know how far south into Florida they are saying they seen it and what's the best time to look?
I live in northwest Florida about 5 mi from the Gulf. Apparently I missed them Friday evening. I went out Saturday evening for about an hour I saw nothing.
I live on the Gulf Coast in North Florida. I stayed outside for about an hour. I didn't see anything. Bummer
Well, couldn't see em tonight on Saturday, but sort of saw them last night . I had to use my camera lense to capture images here in Utah .
I live within the artic circle. This would've been the craziest nothern lights in my life, but ofcourse its almost summer so we can't see anything because it's sunny and bright in the middle of the night.
I've always been curious about how particles from the sun reach the earth's atmosphere and then why the Aurora Borealis is only visible from the North Pole. So this could actually be a divine warning
It’s cloudy out here in Va
We got it here in Southern California today
This stuff has been driving people violently insane in my hometown.
You can only see it distance away from city lights. Anyone in big cities towns, bad luck.
With storms this big, cameras can pick up the lights even in big cities. I saw a time lapse video of them directly over Chicago. One time I saw them was bright colors near a large city, but I was overly tired and didn't know anything about the northern lights, so I thought it was my eyes playing tricks.
Going to watch them again tonight!
Apparently it was even visible from the equator
i did see ANY Nothern lights from where i live in DeLand Florida...
Mario, Brick and Terry took off to take samples of the clouds to take them to the University of California.
A lot of old folks, who never thought they’d live to see them, got to step out onto their front porch and look up to see the skies of Greenland.
What TIME?
Can someone explain why this would disrupt satellites? Please explain this as if I were a 5 year old :)
Think of how magnets can affect electronics. The sun and the earth both have magnetic poles (north and south/positive negative.) Solar flares shoot out charged particles, which sometimes head towards earth.
That's the part I can explain mostly accurate. The rest is how those charged particles interact with our own magnetic fields, which I can't explain very well because a lot of different stuff happens lol
But... The sun has an approximately 11 year cycle, every 11 years or so the suns magnetic poles switch. Halfway between the flip we have whats called solar maximum, meaning more sun flares. We're currently in solar maximum until about 2026, so there's potential for more northern and southern lights, and all the other magnet-y charged particles science stuff I can't explain lol
@@katstorm13 Thank you so much for this explanation!
@@ellataylor1957 NASA has provided a (1) minute video to graphically show how magnetic reconnection creates auroras for student outreach.
I was so upset, living in minnesota idk if we had too much light pollution in our small town but i didnt see anything friday or saturday, i was really upset! But my partner was only an hour away and he saw it just fine, this is bull 😭
New Jersey is always cloudy...
New York too
@@jamesrobloxgamingchannel8648 Its a shame, I saw a little one long time ago..
Those northern lights are so very beautiful.
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Could have just as easily been a Carrington sized event and wiped out all electric power over the entire globe. That's not just conjecture either.
What is Carrington. Never mind I will Google it.
Spectacular views.
wow i never knew about it but at what time of year dose the Northern light hapen
finally! something positive in times of terror, truly a spectacle the Aurora borealis and the news reports
Give them time they'll change it into something negative. there I go being negative again.
@@jackmewhalle6937 sadly, you're right, I was binging some more news articles of this and found a bunch on news stations/ channels fear mongering the people
is it gone for good or can i see it again on sunday/today?
2024 is a great year for astronomy lovers, solar eclipse in April, aurora borealis in May, and planetary alignment in June....
❤
It's raining and storming like crazy here 😢
Where from?
Magneto?
wow
That's so dangerous.
AWESOME!!!
Sooooo sad I wanted to see it
We're seeing the Aurora Australis in Australia atm; moment as well. Is that unusual that both are happening at the sane time
Both poles get auroras at the same time. Solar storms hit earth's magnetic field first and then they channel it into the poles.