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Looks like a fail . Can't see it if you don't look I guess.

Can you give me some other reason to sit by the fire and drink beer later than I should? Thanks in advance...

Boo!

Kp 4 Bz meh Fail so far

I guess it's kind of a get out to a dark spot and hope situation lol. From what I can gather reading around, its waning but there may be instances of pulsed activity.

Nothing?

Golfball and baseball size hail tonight at my sisters’ place outside Dallas. Ouch.

So what's with the northern lights for tonight? Clear as a bell right now.

If you look at the HRRR smoke model and make an reasonable interpretation through 48 hours, looks like we get the worst of the smoke on starting late Tuesday into Wednesday. This is 1PM Tuesday, with all that stuff steadily heading west...

TL;DR = The unusually late-in-the-season SSWE fucked up the upper level pattern.

SpaceWeatherLive should give ya enough info. Anecdotally I feel like Kp7 = good cameras can get it in the dark sky zones. Kp8 > and anyone should look. Kp5 rn is uninspiring. Bz needs to be lower too.

We’ve had warmer days in early April. It’s F’ing chilly out there today. Did someone leave the giant fridge open by accident this morning?

Anybody have a good site for space weather?

Another beautiful day and evening.

Hail tonight in Arlington was golf ball with a few baseball size piecesat my sister’s place. New roof for them for sure.

Looking east at sunset tonight.

You know your Vermont.

49.8 with an 8:17 sunset

Nothing going on right now with the aurora possible next active phase is 11pm-2am Not sure it matters sky is smoky as hell

Looks like Lake Willoughby.

You can probably still get in two or three holes.

Goldendoodle, it's her baby.

Just looking at the latest depictions from NOAA space weather, the geomagnetic storm flared up big time between 09z and 15z, then petered out for several hours, and has since begun to recharge (a second wave of material from the active Sun). As of now, all of New England and NYS would be seeing northern lights if it were dark outside. Hopefully this trend will continue. You can access real-time depictions of the aurora at swpc.noaa.gov. The auroral ring "forecast" is actually a 24-hour time lapse and its "forecast" component is only a few minutes into the future, what you see there is the previous 23 hours and the projected next hour of coverage. I've found from experience that if you're in the "green" outer zone you need to be in a very dark un-light-polluted spot to see much, if you're in yellow you'll easily see a lot of details in low-light-pollution rural spots and if you're in the red then you'll see an awe-inspiring display (all assuming you aren't clouded over of course). Hoping it stays active to 06z so I get a chance here, never went out to look last night because it was cloudy at 0200h. We had a very strong cold front go through late Saturday, highs were near 90F on Saturday and barely 60F today. Unusual for this time of year around here.

Labradoodle?

Too bad too. We were supposed to get some borealis tonight.