May 10th 2024 Northern Lights. The strong storm could trigger colorful, spectacular displays of aurora, also known as the northern. Northern lights or aurora borealis illuminate the night sky north of san francisco in middletown, california on may 11, 2024.

Starting on may 7, at least seven coronal mass ejections, or cmes, charged toward earth and began storming our planet on may 10, which was when the. Increased solar activity causes auroras that dance around earth’s poles, known as the northern lights, or aurora borealis, and southern lights, or aurora australis.