The sun pulls 3 weak magnetic storms on the Earth, can combine for the northern lights

One of the sunspots had three bursts of energy springing up and right towards the Earth. These three bursts of energy can all happen in the Earth's atmosphere at about the same time.

NASA has stated that recent energy shots from the sun, called coronal mass ejections, were weak ejaculations. NASA claims, however, that the combined force of the three CMEs is expected to sufficiently disrupt the Earth's magnetosphere to produce aurora borealis over the next few days.

According to NASA, the CMEs took place around May 12th. The animation above shows the sunspot directed towards the Earth while energy was projected out of the sunspot.

NASA currently predicts that most of the energy will reach the Earth's magnetosphere on May 15th and 16th. The diagram below shows where NASA is currently planning the southern extent of the northern lights.

In Michigan, the green line represents the U.P. and the Mackinac area could see the northern lights.

We have a weak rain system crossing Michigan Wednesday to Thursday. I do not want to go down so much that the sky will be completely cloudy. The clouds will probably be uneven.

Here is the total cloud forecast for Wednesday night.

With the disorganized storm system, the sky can clear the night from time to time.

As I wrote earlier this year, aurora borealis forecasts have few data points and are unlikely to be updated.

Keep this in mind for a possible northern lights tour Wednesday night or Thursday night.

It may seem like fun for a meteorologist to question a forecast. I've seen the most likely predictions of aurora borealis not to show aurora borealis. I have also seen unlikely predictions end with vibrant northern lights. This is one of the reasons why the northern lights remain so hard to see and exciting to hunt.