The Northern Lights, which usually appear over the North Pole, will be visible from the UK tonight.
Rare sightings of the phenomenon will be possible due to 'gazillions of charged particles' heading towards the Earth, tweeted BBC weatherman Simon King.
Mr King said: "On Monday there was a Coronal Mass Ejection on the Sun.
"Right now gazillions of charged particles are heading towards Earth. The result?...
"A strong Geomagnetic storm that’ll bring the #Aurora quite a way south across the U.K tonight."
Unfortunately, the sky will be overcast in the South West tonight, and the weatherman said: "The clouds will not be our friends."
The Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, appear as large areas of green, pink, red, yellow, blue and violet in the sky that can be seen in the direction of due north.
According to the Met Office website, they are best seen in darkness away from any light pollution.
The colours are caused by charged particles in the solar wind bumping into molecules in the Earth's upper atmosphere.
Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) from the sun, cause the Northern Lights to be pushed further south, and that is when we can see them in the UK.
People living in north east Scotland, and especially the Shetland Islands, have the best chance of seeing the display.
