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Rare Northern Lights sighting light up Green Country sky

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GREEN COUNTRY, Okla. — 2 News received pictures from all over Green Country Friday night of the Northern Lights.

It is rare to see the lights this far south.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center said that aurora may be visible into Saturday as far south as Alabama.

The Space Weather Prediction Center is forecasting that pending clear skies, nearly all of Canada and the U.S.-Canadian border will be able to view an aurora.

The last time Earth weathered a geomagnetic storm of this intensity was in October 2003. According to Scripps News, the storm caused power outages in Sweden and damaged power transformer infrastructure in South Africa.

View more pictures and share your photos here: Chief Meteorologist Michael Seger