Northern Lights 2024 May 11. When and where can you see the northern and southern lights also known as the aurora? The biggest geomagnetic storm in two decades, sparked by solar flares, caused the aurora borealis to appear around stretches of the northern hemisphere.

This page provides a prediction of the aurora’s visibility tonight and tomorrow night in the charts below. The northern lights could make an appearance in wisconsin skies on friday night, may 10, or early on may 11 after a large cloud of plasma erupted into.