Northern Lights 2024 California

Northern Lights 2024 California. Cameras from alert california | uc san diego captured rare auroras over northern california on the night of august 11, 2024. Because the northern lights, or aurora borealis, made a surprise trip down to the continental united states, lighting up skies as far south as joshua tree and giving californians a rare look at a celestial show that usually requires getting on a plane.

The animations further down show what the aurora’s been up to over the last 24 hours and estimates what the next 30 minutes will be like. The northern lights are created when energized particles from the sun slam into earth’s upper atmosphere at speeds of up to 45 million mph (72 million kph), but our planet’s magnetic field.