Don't expect to see Geminid meteor shower tonight in Michigan
Clouds are expected to move over most of the state this afternoon, especially overnight, and rain will hit metro Detroit starting about 1 a.m.
Sorry, Michigan: You're unlikely to see the Geminid meteor shower tonight.
Maybe just this once, Mother Nature could give us a break in the form of clear skies to watch the hundreds of meteors that will streak by in their once-a-year show.
But nope. Thanks to cloud cover, no matter where you live across the state, you probably won't see anything.
"It's gonna be really hard to come by," said National Weather Service meteorologist Sara Pampreen.
Clouds are expected to move over most of the state this afternoon, especially overnight, and rain will hit the metro Detroit area starting about 1 a.m.
Chances of seeing anything — even earlier in the evening — are extremely low, she added.
Too bad, because the shower is considered "one of the year's best, peppering the nighttime sky with 50-120 meteors per hour at its peak," noted EarthSky.org.
That translates to about two meteors a minute for lucky observers.
Look out for next year, though. The Geminids will be back again in December, when we'll once make another pass through a trail of debris from an object named 3200 Phaethon, NASA told USA Today.
So start bribing the skies now. It's just 364 days away.
USA Today's Doyle Rice contributed to this report.
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