Northern Lights 2024 May. Increased solar activity could cause auroras as far south as alabama and northern california, but may disrupt communications on earth tonight and over the weekend. The aurora display of 10 may 2024 was a spectacular night for the northern lights and will live long in the memory.
Although they’re difficult to predict, there may be more opportunities to see the northern lights this year, since the sun has been more active than scientists anticipated. Northern lights or aurora borealis illuminate the night sky along a highway north of san francisco in middletown, california on may 11, 2024.