How do clouds affect aurora visibility?

"Is a partly cloudy sky sufficient to eliminate aurora visibility?" -- Aurora borealis occur well above the zone of atmospheric cloud formation, on the edge of space where charged particles from the sun slam into gas atoms in our upper atmosphere. Therefore clouds and weather in general don't affect the aurora themselves. read more

-- Aurora borealis occur well above the zone of atmospheric cloud formation, on the edge of space where charged particles from the sun slam into gas atoms in our upper atmosphere. Therefore clouds and weather in general don't affect the aurora themselves. read more

Within clouds, even if they are very thin, visibility is always less than in the surrounding clear air. Some clouds are dense enough to reduce visibility almost to zero. read more