Update: The Northern Lights should be visible again on Mother's Day. Click here for more info.
If you missed the spectacular display by Mother Nature in the sky last night (or early this morning), don’t panic. You will get another chance. A powerful solar storm hit Earth on Friday, which produced the auroras that could be seen as far south as Florida.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center - yes there is such a thing - we will get a second shot at seeing the Northern Lights tonight.
“NOAA Sunspot Region 3664 remains quite active and produced two more X-class flares in the past 12 hours,” the agency reported. “This sunspot cluster has been responsible for much of the geomagnetic associated events over the past few days.”
Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy that can impact radio communications, power grids, and navigation signals. It also produces the magical lights everyone has been seeing in the sky.
The best viewing times are usually within an hour or two of midnight, between 10 pm and 2 am local time. Get yourself to a beach, preferably on the North Shore and away from light pollution but many of our readers reported seeing the auroras right outside of their back door.
Click here to see reader photos of the auroras from Friday night and Saturday morning.
