Rylan Clark, a BBC presenter, tweeted his joy at witnessing the northern lights from his home in Essex. He uploaded social media photographs from his Brentwood residence with the caption: “I’ve always wanted to see the northern lights… not the best photo, but I think I got it?”
Followers joked that it was M25 lights, but Rylan insisted that it was not.
Dan Holley, a meteorologist, viewed the photographs and said that it was “very feasible” that they depicted the aurora.
As atoms in the Earth’s high-altitude atmosphere are hit with charged particles from the Sun, the aurora borealis can be observed.
It was visible throughout much of the United Kingdom on Sunday night and to a lesser extent on Monday night due to increased cloud cover in certain regions.
On Monday night, though, Rylan believed he was fortunate enough to see it from his home in Essex.
The BBC Radio 2 and Strictly – It Takes Two broadcaster stated on Twitter and Instagram that he had always wanted to see the phenomenon and that his images were shot near his home in south Essex, where the sky was reportedly clear.
His initial tweet received over 700,000 views.
“That is absurd. I’m obsessed, “He composed.
One of his followers quipped, “Are you sure it’s not the M25?” in reference to the light pollution from the neighboring London orbital road.
He responded that he was “confident” that it was not the M25.
He stated,
“This is a north-facing view; the M25 would be on my left.”
Mr. Holley, a BBC and Weatherquest forecaster who viewed the photographs, remarked, “You can just barely make out some magenta hues in the sky and even traces of auroral beams, so it’s highly probable that this is a glimpse of the northern lights.”
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