Northern Lights 2024 North America Map. The best places to view aurora are high northern latitudes during the winter in alaska, canada, and scandinavia. Increased solar activity causes auroras that dance around earth’s poles, known as the northern lights, or aurora borealis, and southern lights, or aurora australis.
2024 is on track to bring the best northern lights in two decades. Americans as far south as alabama and northern california were being treated to a show of the northern lights this weekend from a powerful geomagnetic storm which reached.