The Met Office and NASA are both forecasting displays over the next few days
The Met Office says the Northern Lights could be visible in parts of the UK again over the next few days thanks to solar activity - and the magnetic storm will be strong enough to knock out some radio signals. Magnetic radiation from the Sun will hit the Earth's atmosphere early on Monday morning and the impact will be felt over the next four days.
They added: "There are currently up to nine sunspot regions on the solar disc. AR3762, in the southwest quadrant, remains the largest and most complex region...The cluster of sunspot regions transiting across the southeast quadrant continues to grow in size and complexity, with intricate magnetic looping bringing additional instability"
The Met Office says we could get another, stronger, strike of solar geomagnetic radiation on July 31. Solar winds are currently carrying radiation from the Sun to the Earth at around 400 kilometres per second. The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are caused by the interaction between the Earth's magnetic field and charged particles from the sun. The sun constantly emits a stream of charged particles, known as the solar wind. This wind is made up of electrons, protons, and other particles that travel through space.
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