Northern lights over Berlin: A spectacular natural phenomenon at the weekend!

Trübes Wetter in Berlin am 8. Dezember 2024: Weihnachtsmärkte, Polarlichter und Warnungen vor Regen und Kälte.
Cloudy weather in Berlin on December 8, 2024: Christmas markets, northern lights and warnings of rain and cold. (Symbolbild/MB)

Northern lights over Berlin: A spectacular natural phenomenon at the weekend!

Berlin is facing uncomfortable weather and a fascinating natural event that will illuminate the night of Sunday. The German Weather Service (DWD) warns of plenty of precipitation for the 2nd Advent, which are expected in the capital during the day. According to the experts, the weather conditions are characterized by a storm deep over Belgium, which brings cloudy, high -fog -like clouds and rain showers. The temperatures reach a maximum of 5 degrees Celsius. If you want to visit Christmas markets despite the gray weather, you should dress warmly and choose waterproof shoes. On the night of Monday there are further, sometimes stronger rainfall, and in the southern regions of Brandenburg even snow griesel or snow, such as berlin-live.de reported.

Northern light over Berlin

At the same time, an extremely strong solar storm causes excitement and impressive sights in the night sky. Berlin and Brandenburg gives this nature of the Northern Lights, which are normally only visible in northern regions. NOAA experts (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) reported that the conditions for the viewing of the Northern Lights in Europe, even up to the Canary Islands, are exceptionally cheap. On Saturday evening, the Northern lights were seen in parts of Berlin, bright in light green and reddish tones, especially in the Märkisch-Oderland district. Carolin Liefke from the House of Astronomy described the current Polar lights as very unusual and recalled that a similar phenomenon was recently observed in this intensity over 20 years ago. The cause is coronal mass throps that are classified as G5-the highest level, which was last measured in 2003 in the famous "Halloween storms", such as rbb24.de

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