Amazing! Can't Miss Photos of Florida's Northern Lights
- Staff
- Nov 13, 2025
- 2 min read
People in Florida got a real surprise on Tuesday night, November 11—well into the early hours of the 12th, 2025. The northern lights, usually reserved for far northern skies, showed up thanks to a powerful G4 geomagnetic storm.
The Space Weather Prediction Center actually put out a G4 “severe” warning, which is just one step below the highest alert they can give.
That’s why the aurora pushed way farther south than usual, lighting up skies not just in Central Florida, but also in places like Texas and Alabama.
On that first night—November 11 into the 12th—folks all over Florida caught the show. People in Merritt Island, Titusville, Tampa, Daytona Beach, Winter Park, Tallahassee, and Jacksonville all reported seeing it. The lights weren’t just faint streaks, either. In a lot of spots with less city light, you could spot a red or pink glow with your own eyes, no camera tricks needed.
The action didn’t stop there. Forecasts said the storm would keep going, so there was another shot to catch the aurora on Wednesday night into Thursday morning, November 12–13. It probably wasn’t going to make it as far south as the previous night, but if you were up between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m., you had a good chance to see something.
Why is this such a big deal? Usually, auroras stick close to the Arctic Circle. This time, the sun’s in a busy stretch of its 11-year cycle—solar maximum. That means more big eruptions from the sun (coronal mass ejections), sending a wave of charged particles toward Earth’s atmosphere. That’s what brought the lights so far south. Pretty wild, honestly.
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