Northern Lights 2024 May 11. Northern lights or aurora borealis illuminate the night sky along a highway north of san francisco in middletown, california on may 11, 2024. This is a prediction of the intensity and location of the aurora borealis tonight and tomorrow night over north america.

Increased solar activity causes auroras that dance around earth’s poles, known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) and southern lights (aurora australis). The northern lights flare in the sky over a farmhouse in brunswick, maine, united.