Epic northern lights display possible tonight in New England. Here's the aurora forecast.

What's behind the brilliant northern lights displays this year? Shawn Dahl, a forecaster with the Space Weather Prediction Center, explains the recent the solar activity with WBZ-TV executive weather producer Terry Eliasen and details tonight's aurora forecast for New England.

[@immeplz]

Thank you so much for covering this topic! Seeing the aurora is a bucket list dream, keeping my fingers crossed for tonight!

[@ashvanes484]

same for me, have never seen it but I watch livestreams. Gotta be amazing to see it tho.

[@petersrightbut8297]

Night sky in Connecticut is red! 7:35 pm. Beautiful!

[@TheSharker]

Saw it rn and it looked amazing!

[@mikereilly2745]

Its 8;00 pm Thursday night, I see the northern lights very bright and clear from fairly dark skies in Wareham Ma. Absolutely beautiful.Im charging my camera battery now. I'll image with a 85mm f 1.2 lens ! can't wait. This lens was made for this.

[@AMG-CFT]

can i see it in Acton?

[@ashvanes484]

@@AMG-CFT use your phone's camera even if you don't see anything, and try to get to a dark place (big field or similar) but yeah, I think you could.

[@skehleben7699]

Oooo! I'm so excited!

[@peterwolske]

This guy can really explain stuff.I like him

[@HoratioLundon]

I am watching it right now 👀

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This guy always dress like this on the news?