Northern Lights 2024 Saturday Night. 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. Experts with the national weather service said the levels expected in the storm are very rare, and could mean the northern lights will be visible as far south as.

See the northern lights from rare solar storm. But we are ending our live coverage for tonight.