Northern Lights

In case you didn't know, predicting weather is hard. Predicting weather in space is even more difficult. That's why it's with a bit of trepidation I mention that there's a chance that an incoming 'halo CME' could make the Northern Lights visible over Illinois this week.

The saying what goes around comes around could not be truer than the sunspot which fueled the historic Northern Lights over Missouri a few weeks ago. It's about to face Earth again which could mean another light show is imminent.

This sounds like the kind of outrageous phenomenon you'd hear about in the plot for a science fiction movie, but it really just happened in Missouri. Recent solar flares electrified rocks and soil in the Show Me State and there's science to prove it.

It's not exactly breaking news at this point that it was a very special weekend for the skies over Missouri. Many parts of the state had views of the stunning Northern Lights last Friday and also Saturday night. A new time-lapse video shows just how jaw-dropping the sky sights were.

Both Missouri and Illinois have been treated to back-to-back days of Northern Lights visible over both states and there's a chance that could happen again Sunday night based on the current aurora forecast.

If you thought Friday night was spectacular with the Northern Lights being visible over all of Missouri Friday night, there's a chance the Show Me State will get an encore Saturday night, too.

This solar storm is almost unprecedented. Thanks to 7 incoming coronal mass ejections, it's all but certain that the Northern Lights should be visible over Missouri Friday night and also possibly throughout the weekend.

It would be a great idea to keep your eyes on the skies over Wisconsin this weekend as the Northern Lights may be visible due to a major solar storm from a mammoth sunspot.

Predicting when the Northern Lights will be visible is something that even NASA hasn't completely figured out, but there is a forecast regarding 3 incoming solar flares that could mean the Aurora Borealis will not only be visible in Illinois, but maybe even be overhead this weekend. Maybe.

Something strange happened over Albany, Missouri Thursday night into Friday morning. Video captured by a backyard security camera shows the Northern Lights, but there were no Northern Lights overnight so that's impossible.