Look Up Wyoming! Northern Lights October 4th & 5th

The sun has been busy this year.

Here comes another nighttime northern lights show.

Look for it, on October 4th with an even better showing on the 5th.

This is the result of yet another geomagnetic storm which means stats as far south as Wyoming, and maybe father have another chance to witness one of these events.

What you will see follows a coronal mass ejections that occurred on the sun last Tuesday.

It takes a few days for that energy to get here.

It is, after all, a 98 million-mile journey from the Sun to Earth.

The aurora would be visible across the northwestern U.S. and some midwestern states as the display of greenish and reddish hues occurs more often.

The best time to view the auroras will be on Friday, Oct. 4 from around midnight local time going into the early hours of Saturday, Oct. 5.

If you live around a lot of lights you'll want to take a little drive to get away from them.

That's easy to do in Wyoming.

Wyoming is a state with a lot of open skies with very little "light pollution" from towns and neighborhoods.

Earth has had brighter northern lights to grace the sky as the sun nears the height of its 11-year cycle, making electromagnetic activity a more common occurrence.

11-year cycles are not exact on the Sun but they are typical as its magnetic polls break apart and flip every so often.

This cycle is part of what causes warmer weather for a time.

When that 11-year cycle comes to an end our planet feels a bit of a cool down for a few years.

This also impacts how much rain and snow we get from one decade to the next.