Northern Lights 2024 Prediction Usa. Experts predicted we’d see the best northern lights in two decades this year during the solar maximum, when the sun reaches its peak activity. Some states already had the chance to see the aurora on sunday, and luckily, visibility is forecasted to grow monday.

I’ll then provide tips on when you might see the northern lights throughout the year. The aurora borealis (northern lights) and aurora australis (southern lights) are the result of electrons colliding with the upper reaches of earth’s atmosphere.