If you missed yesterday's amazing Aurora show, don't worry: Tonight's forecast is almost as great! The Icelandic Meteorological Office is predicting both a very high Aurora activity and mostly clear skies over Iceland after midnight. The skies over Reykjavík and most of the South West will remain partly cloudy early evening but by early morning the skies will have cleared up.
Read more: Photos: Yesterday's magnificent aurora over Kleifarvatn lake
Of course you must always take the weather forecast in Iceland with a grain of salt, but it looks like most of the South, as well as the Reykjanes peninsula will be clear after midnight. Conditions in the North, especially the North East, however are perfect.
The IMO is forecasting the activity of the Northern Lights will be a grade 6, or very high activity tonight. The IMO explains that grade 2 (low activity) can be beautiful and grade 3 (moderate) can be dazzling.
A grade 5 or 6 activity is almost guaranteed to produce some truly spectacular displays.
Read more: Beautiful short film commemorating a week of fantastic northern lights
According to IMO it will be dark from 20:57 (8:57 pm) to 6:07 (6:07 am). Sunset is at 20:08 (8:08 pm).
While you should therefore have a chance to catch the Aurora before 21:00 the thick cloud cover over most of West, South West and South Iceland will not lift until midnight.
If you can't stay up late, you could therefore catch the Aurora if you wake up really early!
If you missed yesterday's amazing Aurora show, don't worry: Tonight's forecast is almost as great! The Icelandic Meteorological Office is predicting both a very high Aurora activity and mostly clear skies over Iceland after midnight. The skies over Reykjavík and most of the South West will remain partly cloudy early evening but by early morning the skies will have cleared up.
Read more: Photos: Yesterday's magnificent aurora over Kleifarvatn lake
Of course you must always take the weather forecast in Iceland with a grain of salt, but it looks like most of the South, as well as the Reykjanes peninsula will be clear after midnight. Conditions in the North, especially the North East, however are perfect.
The IMO is forecasting the activity of the Northern Lights will be a grade 6, or very high activity tonight. The IMO explains that grade 2 (low activity) can be beautiful and grade 3 (moderate) can be dazzling.
A grade 5 or 6 activity is almost guaranteed to produce some truly spectacular displays.
Read more: Beautiful short film commemorating a week of fantastic northern lights
According to IMO it will be dark from 20:57 (8:57 pm) to 6:07 (6:07 am). Sunset is at 20:08 (8:08 pm).
While you should therefore have a chance to catch the Aurora before 21:00 the thick cloud cover over most of West, South West and South Iceland will not lift until midnight.
If you can't stay up late, you could therefore catch the Aurora if you wake up really early!
