Increasingly cloudy skies mean the chances of spotting the northern lights over the UK for a third night in a row are “severely limited”, the Met Office said.
A solar storm and clear skies resulted in sightings as far south as Cambridgeshire on Sunday night, and in northern Scotland on Monday.
Passengers onboard an easyJet flight from Reykjavik to Manchester were even gifted a perfect view on Monday night, as the pilot made a 360-turn to ensure they could see the aurora.
“The levels of solar activity are now reducing and this, combined with increasingly cloudy skies, mean that the chances of a sighting are now severely limited.”
However, Mr Madge added that as the natural spectacle diminishes, keen stargazers may still be able to spot a glimpse of the lights on Tuesday night from the coast of north-west Scotland.
The activity over the past few days was the result of a large solar storm, which Mr Gibbs said was not unusual for this point in the solar cycle.
“What we saw (on Sunday) was a bubble of magnetised plasma particles that had come off the sun, and they happened to be heading towards the Earth in this instance,” he said.
“The most common sight is green, which is the result of oxygen atoms being excited. (On Sunday) night we saw some reds and purples, indicative of nitrogen atoms being excited.”
