Fascinating storms over Lake Superior on my way home from work this evening. Isolated storms like this where you can see the rain coming down in such a defined way are definitely not the norm where I live. I see this a lot on my trips to the desert southwest and it always make for some fun times with the camera. It was a treat to see it occur here.
We had a somewhat surprising aurora storm over northeast Minnesota tonight. I say somewhat surprising because spaceweather.com said G1 storms were likely, which are the lowest level geomagnetic storms. Instead, we experienced a strong G3 storm. Even though the moon was up when I made these photos, the lights were easily strong enough to overpower the moonlight. It was a brief but beautiful event!
