{"id":19703,"date":"2024-12-24T07:25:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T07:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/northern-lights-the-aurora-that-dazzled-us-in-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-12-24T07:25:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T07:25:35","slug":"northern-lights-the-aurora-that-dazzled-us-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/northern-lights-the-aurora-that-dazzled-us-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Lights: The aurora that dazzled us in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">This year the night skies have been lit up by some breathtaking Northern Lights displays. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For most of us the chance to see the aurora is just a bucket list wish involving costly travel to the Arctic Circle and then not always getting the big reward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2024, however, the lights were visible unusually far south, with people reporting stunning sightings across southern England on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Featuring a kaleidoscope of reds, greens, purples and blues, and with even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/weather\/articles\/c4g0j7zn813o\" class=\"ssrcss-16fdtb5-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">a rare STEVE phenomenon<\/a> putting in an appearance, it was best year for these spectacles for 20 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/weather\/articles\/clyjvmqzrr9o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year the night skies have been lit up by some breathtaking Northern Lights displays. For most of us the chance to see the aurora is just a bucket list wish involving costly travel to the Arctic Circle and then not always getting the big reward. In 2024, however, the lights were visible unusually far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[7599,7600,2103,1175],"class_list":["post-19703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-pictures","tag-aurora","tag-dazzled","tag-lights","tag-northern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19705,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19703\/revisions\/19705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}