Aurora Alerts UK issued a" red alert" at 7: 23am, stating that the Northern lights may be visible in the northern parts of Britain and could continue tonight.... It comes after a solar flare hit Earth's magnetic field at around 3. 30am this morning.... It sparked a G2-class geomagnetic storm that is now underway and is expected to last until 4pm. The coronal mass ejection( CME) from the Sun has turned the sky into a beautiful colour. Eyes were cast upwards to glowing skies above parts of Engla