Northern lights in the Yukon Territory, Canada. Canada is made up of ten provinces and the northerly three territories: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and the smallest, the Yukon. (David Cartier flickr)
This is due to global warming. At least it does something nice for the world. Enjoy them solar flares but don’t forget what caused them.
“An aurora (plural: auroras or aurorae) is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere (thermosphere). The charged particles originate in the magnetosphere and solar wind and, on Earth, are directed by the Earth’s magnetic field into the atmosphere…
In northern latitudes, the effect is known as the aurora borealis (or the northern lights), named after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for the north wind, Boreas, by Pierre Gassendi in 1621… The northern lights have had a number of names throughout history. The Cree call this phenomenon the “Dance of the Spirits”. In Europe, in the Middle Ages, the auroras were commonly believed a sign from God (see Wilfried Schröder, Das Phänomen des Polarlichts, Darmstadt 1984).”
PS: Solar flares aren’t caused by global warming.