Northern lights around Inverness in mid March

[CarolNoE]

Hi. I am planning a trip to Inverness mid March 2025, inspired by the Chaotic Scot travel blog. Just been reading the previous thread about property in Inverness and someone mentioned it had just been 17 deg that day and later on saw the Northern Lights.
This hadn't occurred to me but now wondering what my chances may be of seeing the NL in mid March. Thanks

Depends entirely on the sun.

Northern lights happen with equal probability I think any time

But the chances of you being able to see them are lowest in the summer - you need dark night, clear skies and a lot of luck as to how intense they are

Might be worth going for a moonless time - new moon rather than full

You don't really see them unless through a phone - I've never seen them here anyway!

A bright display is easily visible naked eye but whether there is a display at all as some upthread said depends on the state of the Sun (so random to a great degree).

However there definitely is a measurable increase in the incidence of Aurora around the equinoxes, the Spring 2025 one being March 20th.

Full Moon in March 2025 is on the 13th… the 13th and a few days either side of that definitely best avoided if possible.

https://earthsky.org/sun/aurora-season-auroras-equinox-connection/

They were exceptionally bright and visible to the naked across almost the whole UK a couple of months ago.

Just depends on solar activity and direction of solar wind. Plus other stuff that gets far too complicated for my brain.

You can see them through a camera pretty often in Scotland and Northern England. Really bright displays visible to the naked eye are more rare. Recently there was a strong display that was seen all over the UK and which was visible to the naked eye, the sky was glowing purple it was amazing. It was great because it was nice and early too. Often I wake up in the morning and realise I missed a big, red alert.

Best thing to do is get the Glendale app and look on Facebook and see if there are any northern light hunting pages/groups for where you are going.