{"id":487545,"date":"2026-03-21T11:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T11:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487545\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T11:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T11:40:10","slug":"northern-lights-forecast-to-reappear-across-uk-on-saturday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487545\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Lights forecast to reappear across UK on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If you missed the display on Friday night, forecasters at the Met Office Space Weather Prediction Centre say it could be seen again on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They say &#8220;geomagnetic activity is expected to remain&#8230; with a chance of reaching a strong storm&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Northern Lights could therefore be seen across Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern areas of England and Wales.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There&#8217;s also a small chance they could be seen further south.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cloud could spoil the view for those in Scotland and Northern Ireland but elsewhere, especially during the first part of Saturday night, there will be some clear skies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To have a go at spotting the lights, look to the north for a faint glow at first and, if you can&#8217;t see the colours, try through a camera lens or on your phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Geomagnetic storms and solar flares are perfectly safe for us as we are protected from the radiation by our atmosphere, but they can interfere with technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you missed the display on Friday night, forecasters at the Met Office Space Weather Prediction Centre say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-487545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}