Northern Lights 2024 Missouri Time. Missouri and kansas get an unusual chance to catch the northern lights tonight. In illinois, cities around chicago could have a stronger opportunity to experience the northern lights on friday.

But geomagnetic storms, caused by coronal mass ejections (cme), can ramp up the northern lights considerably and make them visible over much wider areas. An aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, is seen in the sky in the early morning hours of monday,.