Hey Pam, can you name two things that don't sound like they work together, but apparently totally worked together?

Um, Robo Dogs and the Moon.

Wait, what? Is that real?

Yep. What about you?

Pickles and Dr. Pepper, pickles in Dr. Pepper, pickles in Dr. Pepper, pickles in Dr. Pepper.

What the what? I think we need to jump right in.

I'm Pamela Kirkland.

And I'm Ryan Willard.

This is the 10 News.

And here are 10 things you need to know.

Did you ever think that you would be able to see the northern lights from your very own backyard?

Well, this past weekend, you didn't need to travel to the North Pole to see them.

The Northern Lights, officially called Aurora Borales,

are colorful light displays that happen in the sky, usually near the North Pole.

They're caused by particles from the sun colliding with gases in the Earth's atmosphere,

creating beautiful curtains of light in colors like green, pink, and purple.

Residents of the U.S., even as far as the Florida Keys,

got to witness the display due to a series of solar flares from the sun that set off the storm triggering the famous natural lights.

But the solar storm didn't just bring a spectacular view. The solar flares led to cornal mass

ejections or clouds of plasma and charged particles entering Earth's outer atmosphere. There were

also reports of power grid irregularities and decreases in high frequency, communications, and GPS systems thought to be caused by the solar activity.

Wow, there's been a lot of activity this spring.

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