Northern Lights 2024 May 12. The best time to spot auroras is usually between 10pm and 2am local. The northern lights were visible as far south as florida due to an extreme geomagnetic storm, the strongest to hit earth in 20 years.

More very fast moving coronal mass ejections are expected to hit earth’s magnetic field on sunday — here’s how it impacts your odds of seeing the northern lights. Northern lights or aurora borealis illuminate the night sky over a camper’s tent north of san francisco in middletown on may 11, 2024.