Weather watcher photos from across Northern Ireland show the dazzling lights.
Taken by Sharon Cuatriz, this photo shows the Northern Lights over Derrytrasna, County ArmaghThe Northern lights lit up Northern Irish skies on Monday night before the cloud and rain pushed in.
Weather watcher photos from across the country show the dazzling lights, also known as the Aurora Borealis.As the UK is south of where the natural aurora belt occurs - in Norway, Iceland and Greenland - it takes a strong geomagnetic storm to bring the belt southwards directly over the UK. KP numbers - which measure the strength of aurora - will drop this morning and remain at three or four overnight, below G1 geomagnetic storm strength.The higher the KP number, the better the chance of seeing an aurora display, subject to Earth’s cloud cover.Northern Lights dazzle in Irish skiesThe Northern Lights appear as bright, swirling curtains of lights in the night sky and range in colour from green to pink and scarlet.
The two most common gases in the Earth's atmosphere are nitrogen and oxygen. Oxygen atoms glow green - the colour most often seen in the Northern Lights, while nitrogen atoms emit purple, blue and pink. The most impressive auroras occur when the Sun emits really large clouds of particles called "coronal mass ejections".
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