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[Kachina624]

Today I thought we needed a dose of lovely tranquility in the skies.   These clouds must have something to do with ice crystals.

[JYWilliams]

Beautiful....

[We rescue cats]

Sensational!! 

[on the bay]

I've seen pictures of the Northern LIghts but never anything like this! I always think how amazing it is that there are so many places and flora and fauna that lots of us have never seen before! Thanks for this awesomeness @Kachina624!

[sugarbee]

@Kachina624Tranquility - what a beautiful and lovely word and thought

[Kachina624]

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@on the bay wrote:

I've seen pictures of the NOrthern LIghts but never anything like this! I always think how amazing it is that there are so many places and flora and fauna that lots of us have never seen before! Thanks for this awesomeness!

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@on the bay.  Speaking of the Northern Lights,  Facebook was full of photos of them yesterday mostly taken in Colorado. Must have been Sunday or Monday night.  This is extremely unusual.  They were even seen in Española, NM,  which is a little North of Santa Fe.

[meallen616]

Just beautiful!

[monicakm]

@Kachina624 

Amazing!  Thank you for sharing.

[monicakm]

@Kachina624 

Texas isn't a state one would expect to see the Northern Lights but that's exactly what we saw on my 50th birthday (looking NE naturally).  It wasn't as spectacular as these photos but it's something I'll never forget.

[Cakers3]

Awesome and beautiful but researching these clouds I found this on NASA:,

"Scientists recently discovered that polar stratospheric clouds, long known to play an important role in Antarctic ozone destruction, are occurring with increasing frequency in the Arctic.

These high altitude clouds form only at very low temperatures help destroy ozone in two ways: They provide a surface which converts benign forms of chlorine into reactive, ozone-destroying forms, and they remove nitrogen compounds that moderate the destructive impact of chlorine.

In recent years, the atmosphere above the Arctic has been colder than usual, and polar stratospheric clouds have lasted into the spring. As a result, ozone levels have been decreasing."