Many people who missed the amazing display on Friday night are desperate to see it for themselves - forecasters explain if the aurora borealis will show tonight
The Northern Lights stunned most of the UK overnight thanks to an “extreme” geomagnetic storm. Delighted people from Whitley Bay on the north east coast, Essex, Cambridgeshire and Wokingham in Berkshire all have been sharing pictures of the amazing display overnight.
“Activity is expected to slowly decline, however there is a good chance you’ll be able to see it again tonight,” he said. Met Office spokesperson Stephen Dixon said the conditions that allowed the Northern Lights to appear on Friday night could be replicated on Saturday, but that the exact locations were still unknown.
The best time to spot the Northern Lights tends to be between 10pm and 2am. Last night’s sightings have reached as far as Ireland, with the Irish weather service Met Eireann posting images of the lights in Dublin and at Shannon Airport in Co Clare. The NOAA said the G5 geomagnetic storm, which is considered extreme and is the strongest level of geomagnetic storm, hit earth on Thursday and could affect communications, GPS and power grids. The cause of this storm is a “large, complex” sunspot cluster and is 17 times the diameter of earth, with the last storm with a G5 rating hitting earth in October 2003, causing power outages in Sweden.
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