Northern Lights 2024 San Francisco.  — updated predictions show northern light activity peaking in 2024:  — northern lights or aurora borealis illuminate the night sky north of san francisco in middletown, california on may 11, 2024.

 — a view of the northern lights over the bay bridge on may 10, 2024.  — places as far south as alabama and parts of northern california were expected to see the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights from a powerful geomagnetic storm that reached.