Northern Lights 2024 San Francisco. The national oceanic and atmospheric administration said lights, formerly known as a g4 geomagnetic storm, could produce northern lights as far south as alabama and northern california. The aurora borealis, also knows as the northern lights, is visible above lake berryessa early saturday after a rare, severe solar storm reached earth on friday afternoon.

But elsewhere in northern california, the aurora borealis was very. The blinking lights of a plane streak through the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, which colored the sky over lake berryessa in napa county late friday.