{"id":797525,"date":"2026-10-09T23:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T23:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797525\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T23:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T23:58:18","slug":"the-northern-lights-could-be-visible-from-the-uk-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797525\/","title":{"rendered":"The Northern Lights could be visible from the UK tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Clean-Photo-10-1024x683.png\" class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\" alt=\"The Northern Lights illuminating the sky above Stone Henge\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit: Pajor Pawel, Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some very fortunate folk could soon be ticking a coveted item off their bucket list as the <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.metoffice.gov.uk\/specialist-forecasts\/space-weather\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/weather.metoffice.gov.uk\/specialist-forecasts\/space-weather\" data-action=\"text_cta_3\" data-category=\"click_non_sales\">Met Office<\/a> has revealed that the Northern Lights could shine above the UK this weekend. Space weather prediction centres are keeping an eye on an expected increase in solar activity that could cause a rather dazzling display in certain parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Why could the Northern Lights be visible from the UK?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have an eruption of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) to thank for our increased chances of feasting our eyes on aurora borealis this <a href=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/things-to-do-in-london-weekend\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/things-to-do-in-london-weekend\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_4\" data-category=\"click_internal\">weekend<\/a>. Earlier this week, the sun unleased a rather powerful solar explosion of CMEs (which is basically a big old expulsion of plasma and magnetic fields that travel at around 2 million miles per hour). The Met Office has reported that there are currently three CMEs heading in the direction of Earth \u2013 and that an elevated window for geomagnetic storms could increase the likelihood of auroral activity.<\/p>\n<p>When could the Northern Lights be visible in the UK?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Met Office, the CMEs \u2018have the potential to arrive at Earth\u2019 on October 9, 10, and 11, but there is \u2018significant uncertainty\u2019 regarding the times at which they could arrive. On the whole, the Northern Lights are best seen at night, when it\u2019s dark and the sky is clear of clouds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, over the next few nights, there\u2019s a chance that the Northern Lights will be visible from Scotland and northern England. Before you get too excited, it\u2019s highly unlikely that we Londoners will be getting in on the action \u2013 but it\u2019s certainly not too late to hop on a train and hotfoot it up north, I suppose. To heighten your chances of catching a glimpse of aurora, head to an unobstructed open space with minimal light pollution, and remember that they often appear brighter through a camera lens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Pajor Pawel, Shutterstock Some very fortunate folk could soon be ticking a coveted item off their bucket&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-797525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797525","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=797525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}