The northern lights will be the most visible between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. local time and are most visable further from the light pollution of major metropolitan areas. The lights will be best seen under cloudless skies.

There could be a chance to see the northern lights in northern New England, and potentially Vermont, tonight, according to forecasters.

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The Northern Lights are caused by the solar wind, a stream of charged particles from the sun interacting with Earth’s magnetic field. As charged particles strike Earth’s magnetic field, they accelerate down its magnetic field lines at the north and south poles to create ovals of green and red.

A northern lights map shows any state caught in the red view line could see the aurora over the next two nights.

The Northern Lights, known as aurora borealis, occur almost every night of the year in the Arctic area, but in Ireland, we only have a very small chance of seeing them