Sun Flings Coronal Mass Ejection Our Way - Chances to See Auroras Are Extremely Good This Week

  • Publish date: Saturday، 11 April 2026 Reading time: 1 min read

Sun Flings Coronal Mass Ejection Our Way - Chances to See Auroras Are Extremely Good This Week

A CME has left the sun and is heading to Earth1

April 10 is the best storm day, followed by April 11

Just the Beginning: Solar Cycle 25 Is Warming Up

Focus on the Bz, not just the Kp index

High latitudes are ideal, but mid latitudes also have potential

Two useful things dark skies and your phone camera

When to go out The best time is between 10pm and 2am

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It is becoming one of the most favorable months of the year, April 2026, to see an aurora. A coronal mass ejection has propelled a wave of charged plasma on the earth and the fast solar wind by several coronal holes is fueling the fire. NOAA forecasters are monitoring G1 to G2 geomagnetic storm conditions on April 10 and 11, with the interplanetary magnetic field already being tilted southward - the same direction that causes the most intense, most widespread northern lights. This is the time you have waited to get a good reason to go out and take a look up in the air.
 

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