Aurora Borealis

Wyoming Photographer Michelle Olsen captured some great images of the northern lights at Deaver Reservoir outside of Powell.

Be sure to watch for the northern lights if you are out and about during the late night and early morning hours this week as NOAA has issued a magnetic storm watch.

According to spaceweather.com, a series of CMEs, or coronal mass ejections, hit Earth's magnetic field on June 22nd, producing a severe G4-class geomagnetic storm. Northern Lights spilled across the Canadian border into more than a dozen US states, including places as far south as Colorado, Georgia, Virginia and Arkansas...

Have you ever seen the Northern Lights? I remember viewing the glowing pink steaks of the Aurora Borealis during a trip to Montana one time and they are spectacular. After a severe geomagnetic storm hit Earth over the weekend, many states in North America may be seeing the Northern Lights.

Have you ever caught a glimpse of the northern lights? After a couple large solar flares erupted earlier this week, scientists are predicting spectacular views of the Aurora Borealis across much of the U.S. tonight including over Cheyenne.

Have you ever seen the Northern Lights? This year, the Aurora Borealis is extra vivid and spectacular due to the largest solar flare in six years. Even scientists in Finland, where they see them regularly, have been impressed. If we're lucky, maybe we'll even be able to catch a glimpse of the phenomenon on one of the clear nights here in Wyoming.