Northern and Southern Lights glow over weekend skies
For many across Canada and the northern United States, it wasn't the weather but the space weather that made a mark on the weekend.
A spectacular display of the Northern Lights wowed professional and amateur photographers alike early Monday and Tuesday, thanks to a minor geomagnetic storm washing over the planet.
And it wasn't only the Northern Hemisphere that got treated to a show. The Aurora Australis was also captured in Tasmania, Australia.
WATCH BELOW: AURORA AUSTRALIS GLOWS OVER TASMANIA
According to a release from NASA, a 'coronal hole high speed stream' is to thank for the dazzling auroras; a fast stream of particles from the Sun that are disturbing Earth's magnetic field. The agency has issued a G1 watch for August 5th and 6th.
The strength of the storm, along with local viewing conditions, determines how far south the aurora are likely to be visible. This minor storm is expected to stay at about the minimum level to qualify as a storm, with a Kp of 5. The map below gives an idea of what that means in terms of viewing.
And if skies were cloudy in your part of the world, or you're outside the viewing range, there were lots of amazing images posted to social media. Some of these are collected below.
