After Hurricane Milton, strange lights were seen in the sky over Florida: what are they about?

The passage of Hurricane Milton in Florida, United States, left 16 dead and hundreds of homes without power. To these worrying figures, according to CNN, are added the 1,000 rescues that the rescue forces had to carry out until the night of Thursday, October 10.

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis warned that the death toll may rise as rescue operations continue.

Amid the desolate images left by the passage of Hurricane Milton in Florida, Some photographs have gone viral in which a series of colors can be seen in the American sky.

Last Wednesday, October 9, it was warned that the northern lights would be seen in different parts of the planet because a strong solar storm would impact the Earth on the night of October 10.

Shawn Dahl of the US Space Weather Prediction Center explained that The northern lights could be seen between the early hours of Thursday and Friday, that is, from October 10 to 11.

This phenomenon occurs when the Sun approaches – or possibly is – at the peak of its 11-year cycle, when activity is greatest.

It is presumed that the northern lights could be seen from Florida because they are more visible when they are far from city lights. After Hurricane Milton hit, the state practically ran out of power.

For the second time in 2024, northern lights are seen in Europe

Florida was not the only place where the impressive lights were seen in the sky. Several European countries experienced an episode of northern lights early this Friday for the second time in five months, a fact caused by the current solar cycle, with high activity of magnetic storms that occur on the Sun.

As happened last May, images were captured from distant locations such as Adliswil (Switzerland), Gdynia (Poland), Ringsted (Denmark) and the Canary Islands (Spain) that show the beauty of this natural phenomenon, with a reddish luminescence.

Thus, from La Palma, in the Spanish archipelago of the Canary Islands, which is located at a latitude of 28º N, images were taken that capture this unusual event and that, before the episode in May, had not been reported for more than twenty years. , as explained at the time to the EFE news agency from the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC).

As happened at that time, on Wednesday, October 9, the Sun emitted one of the most intense solar flares, classified as class X 1.8, producing an important coronal mass ejection in the direction of the Earth.

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