Is this what you mean by planets aligning? This is the Twin Cities forcast of what you describe, I think......
Eye-popping meteor shower on tap in the skies tonight
"If the weather cooperates and keeps the clouds at bay, the most spectacular celestial light show of the year should be visible tonight.
The annual Perseid meteor shower is peaking in the northeast sky, with an average of 60 meteors an hour streaking to the ground.
The shower is one of the most reliable to occur every year over the Northern Hemisphere and emanates from a cloud of debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet as the Earth passes through it.
The meteors, most of them tiny and traveling at more than 2,600 miles per minute, should become visible about 8:30 p.m., which corresponds with sunset. According to astronomy websites, the display becomes more spectacular after midnight.
As for clear skies, the weather forecast for tonight includes the possibility of thunderstorms breaking through partly cloudy skies"