Aurora Borealis 2024 Seattle Today. Increased solar activity causes auroras that dance around earth’s poles, known as the northern lights, or aurora borealis, and southern lights, or aurora australis. When will the northern lights be visible in washington?
2024 is setting up to be potentially one of the best years for auroras in two decades, some experts say. The aurora does not need to be directly overhead but can be observed from as much as a 1000 km away when the aurora is bright and if conditions are right.