Northern Lights: Aurora dances off Norfolk coast

Weather conditions and solar winds aligned over the weekend to create perfect conditions to see the Northern Lights from Norfolk.

Columns of the aurora could be seen, when using a camera, dancing over the North Sea off the coast at Happisburgh.

“We had a glancing blow off a solar flare, basically – the sun sneezed and we were the handkerchief to catch it,” said aurora hunter James Rowley-Hill.

The Northern Lights are caused by the interaction of the solar wind – a stream of charged particles escaping the Sun – and our planet’s magnetic field and atmosphere.