Northern lights put on spectacular display across British Columbia

Residents crossed B.C. and galore parts of the satellite were treated to a airy amusement connected Thursday night.

The northern lights could beryllium seen successful galore areas astir Metro Vancouver, the Lower Mainland and the Interior and Northern B.C.

The airy amusement was among a bounty of aurora borealis viewings seen this year. They are owed to the sun’s magnetic field, which is astatine its highest of its 11-year rhythm and putting retired much star storms, resulting successful much predominant displays of northern lights.

According to the Stanford Solar Center, star flares typically scope from B — considered excessively tiny to harm Earth — up to X, which tin trigger planet-wide vigor blackouts and long-lasting radiation storms.

When these flares interact with the Earth, they origin geomagnetic storms which are past fixed a classification of G1 to G5 successful presumption of strength, with G1 seeing imaginable anemic powerfulness grid fluctuations and a G5 having the imaginable to origin immoderate grid systems to acquisition implicit blackouts.

This tempest was fixed a G3 classification.

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— with files from Sean Previl