The Ursid Meteor Shower peaks Friday night into Saturday morning.
The holiday season just got a little brighter -- literally.
The annual winter solstice meteor shower peaks Friday night across the northern hemisphere. Known as the Ursid Meteor Shower, the annual meteor shower shows up as the Comet Tuttle leaves a trail of "comet crumbs" in the Earth's path.
These crumbs, according to space scientists, enter Earth's atmosphere and burn up through the air. These meteors peak after midnight on Friday, December 21st into the early morning hours of Saturday, Dec. 22.
This is a "low key" meteor shower, according to NASA, meaning this shower only produces about five to 10 meteors per hour. However, you may struggle to see even that may because of the full moon expected in the sky. Because of the brightness the full moon will provide in the night sky, some NASA officials have named this years shower the "cursed Ursids."
Locally, our forecast may be a bit difficult to see the meteors fly throughout the night sky as some lingering clouds from our departing storm system may hinder your visibility. You're better off seeing some meteors a few hours prior to sunset, as the remaining clouds clear out.
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