The Edhat reader Patti Gutshall took a photo of the Northern Lights of the E. Camino Cielo Road in Santa Barbara on Sunday evening.
“I didn't see colors, but this comes from Nikon D850. Cameras can see what the eyes cannot,” said Gutshall.
A strong geomagnetic storm took place on Sunday evening in the United States, in which the colorful northern lights made visible for more places than it is normally, after the space weather center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
It was predicted that the lights are visible for most of the northern half of the United States and, according to NOAA, were even made to the south such as North California and Alabama.
From Monday morning there were reports on the lights in Southern California such as Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.
The geomagnetic storm was stimulated by a persistent coronal mass emissions, the appearance when the sun spits out large amounts of plasma and magnetic field into space. The northern lights are caused by sun wind that hits the magnetic field and the atmosphere of the earth.
It is best to look at in a dark environment late at night or early in the morning. It can still be possible to see the lights on Monday evening, although a camera is practical to see what the eye does not prefer.