The conditions for experiencing the northern lights will be brilliant around Iceland tonight. The skies will be clear or partly clear and according the excellent aurora forecast by The Icelandic Met Office (IMO) we can expect grade 6 northern lights, or very high activity.
IMO explains that grade 2 (low activity) can be beautiful and grade 3 (moderate) can be dazzling.
Read more: Beautiful short film commemorating a week of fantastic northern lights
Be sure to dress warmly if you are heading for northern lights hunting as the mercury will drop to or below zero degrees Celsius (32 F) throughout the country in the evening. See IMO's forecast.
Read more: They camped out while travelling around Iceland hunting for the northern lights
According to IMO it will be dark from 18.26 (6.26 pm) to 7.59 (7.59 am). Sunset is at 17.36 (5.36 pm) and the moon rises at 1.45 (1.45 am).
Cloud cover At midnight tonight. Image by The Icelandic Met Office
The conditions for experiencing the northern lights will be brilliant around Iceland tonight. The skies will be clear or partly clear and according the excellent aurora forecast by The Icelandic Met Office (IMO) we can expect grade 6 northern lights, or very high activity.
IMO explains that grade 2 (low activity) can be beautiful and grade 3 (moderate) can be dazzling.
Read more: Beautiful short film commemorating a week of fantastic northern lights
Be sure to dress warmly if you are heading for northern lights hunting as the mercury will drop to or below zero degrees Celsius (32 F) throughout the country in the evening. See IMO's forecast.
Read more: They camped out while travelling around Iceland hunting for the northern lights
According to IMO it will be dark from 18.26 (6.26 pm) to 7.59 (7.59 am). Sunset is at 17.36 (5.36 pm) and the moon rises at 1.45 (1.45 am).
Cloud cover At midnight tonight. Image by The Icelandic Met Office
