In Italy, an unusual display of night lights, the polar aurora, a very rare event for our latitudes, has occurred.
During the late afternoon, with peak visibility from 18:00 to 19:00, the sky was colored with shades of red and violet above the peaks of the Alps and on various elevations in the north, even extending as far as the southern region of Puglia. https://youtu.be/6y63wNvqPr4?si=IBkKDtR09iZWU3iO The phenomenon also received reports from countries such as Austria, Romania, and Slovenia, thanks to the recordings of meteorological webcams and photographs published by numerous users on social networks.
Previously, a similar display had occurred in Italy on September 25, when a polar aurora had covered the skies of Lombardy and South Tyrol in red.
This celestial spectacle, known in the northern hemisphere as the aurora borealis, consists of a luminous display during which dynamic chromatic stripes of red, green, and blue are observed in the Earth’s atmosphere, generated by the interaction between particles carried by solar winds and the Earth’s atmosphere.
Generally, due to the particular geographical position of our planet, they can be predominantly observed in the countries of Northern Europe, such as the Scandinavian countries and Iceland. 
The unusual sight of this aurora was caused by a violent solar disturbance that struck our planet.
The event is the result of a G3 category solar storm, on a scale where the maximum is G5, so intense that within the Arctic Circle the phenomenon was even perceived during the day, in the presence of sunlight, a fact that occurs rarely, almost once every decade.
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