Northern Lights visible from the UK tonight: How and when to see them

The Northern Lights will be visible as far south as Cumbria , the North Pennines and Cheviot Hills .

The display stems from a solar storm that left the sun on Saturday (September 16 ) A coronal mass ejection ( CME ) has travelled at hundreds of miles per second to hit the Earth 's magnetic fields, causing the aurora.

It is most commonly seen over the Arctic Circle such as Scandinavia and Alaska .