May 10th 2024 Northern Lights. Increased solar activity causes auroras that dance around earth’s poles, known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) and southern lights (aurora australis). 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 strongest.

Northern lights or aurora borealis illuminate the night sky near london, ontario, during a geomagnetic storm on may 10, 2024. A severe solar storm may supercharge the northern lights from friday through the weekend, with a chance to see auroras as far south in the u.s.