Watch northern lights dance over Alaska and Washington in ‘display of the decade’

Northern lights dazzled in the skies over Alaska and Washington, thanks to a geomagnetic storm.

Viewers of the stunning lights were ready with their cameras Feb. 26 and Feb. 27 to snap shots of the “display of the decade.”

“Vivid green filled the horizon as hues of red pillars piled over top. At one point the pillars were quite literally directly over our heads!” one person shared on Facebook after taking photos of the aurora borealis in Port Angeles, Washington.

The solar storm initiated on Feb. 24 when “a magnetic filament connected to sunspot AR3229 erupted,” according to SpaceWeather.com.

A strong geomagnetic storm alert was then issued for Feb. 27, meaning there would be a strong “disturbance in the Earth’s magnetic field,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported.

The storm didn’t cause any concerns for the general public, but it was strong enough so people could see the aurora borealis at night if the weather conditions were right, according to NOAA.

“It was purely magical, everything I had dreamed I could only experience in Alaska or Iceland was happening right in my own back yard,” another person said on Facebook after viewing the lights from Forks, Washington.

The northern lights were also spotted in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska.

“The Glacier Bay Lodge is empty and still, but the sky above is anything but ~ stunning aurora borealis filled our skies on Sunday night,” the park said in a Facebook post.

The lights were seen as far south as La Grande, Oregon, and West Oak, Nebraska, according to SpaceWeather.com.

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