Thanks to two solar storms, the northern lights made an appearance over the Puget Sound early Tuesday, according to several photographs of the natural event.
The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are lights in the night sky caused when solar winds create disturbances in the magnetosphere.
The first storm arrived early July 19, illuminating the night sky most of the night.
Photographer Sigma Sreedharan captured the lights dancing above Seattle at 1:28 a.m. Tuesday.
#NorthernLights over #Seattle from last night/earlier this morning. I love catching the #aurora over the city, it is a hard thing to do with all that light pollution, but that is the fun part
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