Mark your calendar for this weekend's celestial event. The Leonid meteor shower is back and will peak this Sunday night through Monday morning around dawn. The Leonid meteor shower is notorious for producing around 15 meteors per hour. It happens when Earth passes through a debris field from comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. The latest: Weather coverage from WPBF 25 News Interactive radar: South Florida weather coverage from WPBF 25 NewsMarc Wiskoff, an educator with the COX Science Center said, "The best way to view it is a darker sky if possible. That's the first thing. Timing, probably after midnight, from midnight to about an hour before dawn. Looking up in the Northeast. It'll be high in the sky near Leo the Lion, and hopefully, we'll get a good shower. But remember, the other problem is we're getting a full moon." Leonid meteor showers have been known in the past to produce a meteor storm. This means over 1,000 meteors per hour, but it only happens once every 33 years. One obstacle this weekend will be the full supermoon. Get the latest weather updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.Weather | Radar | Hurricanes | Traffic | uLocal | Facebook | Twitter | InstagramThe next meteor shower we can catch in South Florida is the Geminids, which will peak on the night of Dec. 13.
Mark your calendar for this weekend's celestial event.
The Leonid meteor shower is back and will peak this Sunday night through Monday morning around dawn.
The Leonid meteor shower is notorious for producing around 15 meteors per hour. It happens when Earth passes through a debris field from comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle.
Marc Wiskoff, an educator with the COX Science Center said, "The best way to view it is a darker sky if possible. That's the first thing. Timing, probably after midnight, from midnight to about an hour before dawn. Looking up in the Northeast. It'll be high in the sky near Leo the Lion, and hopefully, we'll get a good shower. But remember, the other problem is we're getting a full moon."
Leonid meteor showers have been known in the past to produce a meteor storm. This means over 1,000 meteors per hour, but it only happens once every 33 years.
One obstacle this weekend will be the full supermoon.
Get the latest weather updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.
Weather | Radar | Hurricanes | Traffic | uLocal | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
The next meteor shower we can catch in South Florida is the Geminids, which will peak on the night of Dec. 13.