Overnight, brilliant shades of red, green, and purple painted the sky. From San Francisco Bay to farmland in Wisconsin, here's a pilot's view over Chicago. All inspiring auroras, even stretching unusually far south. >> My husband just woke me up because apparently there's northern lights in Florida tonight. Thanks to the extreme intensity of a geomagnetic storm when the sun blasts out charged particles at several million miles an hour that bombard Earth's magnetic field. But it's not all about the beauty sh ...