The northern lights lit the night sky ablaze over Barrie and the surrounding area last night with dancing streams of colour stretched across the sky.
If you could drive to an open area with little light pollution, such as north to Muskoka, the added brilliance of light and colour was mesmerizing.
Since the atmospheric event is occurring this time of year, spring peepers and other frogs can be heard singing along with the show.
Interwoven shades of green and purple curtains and spirals of light flashed in and out of existence as particles, mainly protons and electrons, ionized through our upper atmosphere as the solar wind washed around our planet after being ejected by a coronal mass ejection on the surface of the sun.
A geomagnetic storm this intense has not been seen on Earth since October 2003.
The best way to view it is through your phone's video camera, as the digital sensor captures more light than the human eye.
Adjusting the video exposure settings will help to bring out the bright light and colours in the sky.
The northern lights show is expected to last through the weekend.
The speed of the video captured straight overhead by BarrieToday is in real time, showing the pace of particle movements through the atmosphere.
