I am so excited when I know this information from SpaceWeather.com!
Quote From SpaceWeather.com
Every year in late April Earth passes through the dusty tail of Comet Thatcher (C/1861 G1), and the encounter causes a meteor shower–the Lyrids. This year the shower peaks on April 22nd.
The best time to look, no matter where you live, is during the hours before dawn on Saturday morning, April 22nd. If you wake before 2 am and watch the sky until sunrise, you can expect to see at least a dozen meteors. Counts typically range from 5 to 20 meteors per hour. Observers in the country will see more, observers in the city less.
Lyrid meteors appear to stream from the bright star Vega, more or less, as shown in the sky map below:
In fact, the Lyrids have nothing to do with Vega. The true source of the shower is Comet Thatcher. Every year in April, Earth plows through Thatcher’s drawn-out dusty tail. Flakes of comet dust, most no bigger than grains of sand, strike Earth’s atmosphere traveling 49 km/s (110,000 mph) and disintegrate as streaks of light–meteors!Lyrid meteors are typically as bright as the stars in the Big Dipper, which is to say of middling brightness. But some are more intense, even brighter than Venus. These “Lyrid fireballs” cast shadows for a split second and leave behind smokey debris trails that linger for minutes.
Occasionally, the shower intensifies. Most years in April there are no more than 5 to 20 meteors per hour during the shower’s peak. But sometimes, when Earth glides through an unusually dense clump of comet debris, the rate increases. Sky watchers in 1982, for instance, counted 90 Lyrids per hour.
I choose to quote down this message from SpaceWeather.com due to this is an ‘emergency’ news and I have to spread it out as fast as I can. Anyway, good luck in spotting Lyrid Meteor Shower! 
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