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Aurora and lightning collide in a rare Texas sky show
Chron.com ^ | Sept 17 2025 | Ariana Garcia

Posted on 09/19/2025 6:53:27 AM PDT by texas booster

Low on the horizon in the Texas Panhandle, a faint pink aurora shimmered against a backdrop of thick storm clouds and distant flashes of lightning — a surreal collision of sky and space.

Just east of Amarillo, weather videographer and storm chaser Blake Brown captured the rare combination in a single frame: aurora, stars, distant lightning, and a windmill silhouetted in the foreground under a mostly clear sky.

"What a spectacular night it was last night," Brown posted on social media Monday, alongside his surreal image. "The northern lights decided to make a little appearance down here in the Texas Panhandle for the first time in a little while. And was even accompanied by some big storms with bright lightning!"

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KEYWORDS: amarillo; aurora; ezekiel
Brown told Chron he went out right as it got dark, and the display lasted five minutes or less.

The light show followed an unexpected G3 (strong) geomagnetic storm late Sunday. Forecasters had predicted minor G1 to moderate G2 activity from a coronal hole on the sun, but a hidden polarity island within the solar wind amplified the impact, turning it into a stronger G3 storm and pushing auroras much farther south than anticipated.

Auroras form when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth's magnetic field and energize gases in the upper atmosphere. Those gases—mainly oxygen and nitrogen—release that energy as light. The stronger the solar storm, the more widespread and vivid the auroras become.

1 posted on 09/19/2025 6:53:27 AM PDT by texas booster
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Blessings, and stay cool!

2 posted on 09/19/2025 6:55:26 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

Awesome.


3 posted on 09/19/2025 7:05:50 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: texas booster

Awesome photos, thanks for the ping!


4 posted on 09/19/2025 7:11:00 AM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." )
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To: crusty old prospector

Very.


5 posted on 09/19/2025 7:11:35 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: texas booster; null and void

Low on the horizon in the Texas Panhandle, a faint pink aurora shimmered against a backdrop of thick storm clouds and distant flashes of lightning — a surreal collision of sky and space.

Just east of Amarillo, weather videographer and storm chaser Blake Brown captured the rare combination in a single frame: aurora, stars, distant lightning, and a windmill silhouetted in the foreground under a mostly clear sky.

This is an interesting etymology:

AI Overview

The name Amarillo is of Spanish origin and means "yellow". It is the name of a city in Texas, which is thought to have been named for the yellow soil or vegetation in the area. The word's etymology ultimately traces back to the Arabic word anbar, meaning amber or ambergris, which was adapted into Spanish to mean yellow or amber-colored.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/amarillo

But then there's

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amarillo#Spanish

Well in any case,

"The Texas panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_panhandle

Amber appears 3x in the KJV, all in Ezekiel. It's the translation of chashmal, which is the modern word for electricity.

Ezekiel 1:4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

Looks important, but maybe it's just me. 🤪

Matthew 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_man#Jewish_Bible

6 posted on 09/19/2025 7:58:38 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: texas booster

Amazing and beautiful.

Thank you.


7 posted on 09/19/2025 8:04:17 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: texas booster

That is so cool.


8 posted on 09/19/2025 8:08:14 AM PDT by Allegra (Thank you for your attention to this matter. )
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To: texas booster

Bkmk


9 posted on 09/19/2025 8:17:38 AM PDT by sauropod
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To: texas booster
Blake Brown Photography

Here is the FB page of the photographer who set up and took the photo referenced by The Chron.

He also has pages on many other social media sites. But no website that I could find.

Times, they are a'changin.

10 posted on 09/19/2025 8:21:41 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

God Blessed Texas!


11 posted on 09/19/2025 8:21:45 AM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (A Free Press MAY distort the truth, but a Controlled Press WILL distort the truth.)
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