Tonight's your chance to watch auroras dazzle northern Michigan skies, with cloudy weather set to clear by night, and you might even get to glimpse them again Friday night.

The northern lights, or aurora borealis, represent a colorful array of lights in the night sky.

Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) predict an upcoming geomagnetic storm capable of producing the auroras in northern Michigan on Thursday, Aug. 7 and Friday, Aug. 8.

Despite periods of rain and thunderstorms forecasted for Thursday and Friday, clouds should clear by nighttime both nights, the National Weather Service office in Gaylord expects, while the Marquette NWS office says Friday night could see visibility blocked by clouds.

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