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Well I wouldn't say that entirely but most likely yes. The G2 last fall gave a show here with visible rods etc. but it certainly didn't match up to earlier this week. A lot will ride on that IMF and if we get a lucky substorm as well.

Yet another Earth directed coronal mass ejection erupted from the Sun this morning. Modeling of the event predicts arrival June 27 at 1700 UT (13:00 EDT). This event is expected to be weaker than the severe geomagnetic storm from earlier in the week. SWPC forecasters are calling for Moderate (G2) geomagnetic storm conditions beginning June 27 and continuing into June 28 So models predict another daytime hit, but storming should persist into Fri night. G2 is enough to get it done here should the IMF be south.

SWPC says it was an asymmetric full halo so at least some of it was Earth directed. Modeling is now in progress.

Basically anywhere there is a clear view north. A mountaintop would be ideal but if not somewhere with a lot of open fields. For me that is up in the Swanton area outside of St. Albans. Obviously you can get darker skies in the NE Kingdom. I wonder if the south end of Lake Willoughby would be good out there. I should note as a rare occurrence the other night the aurora was nearly directly overhead at times and quite bright at times, but certainly away from city lights is almost always necessary. Friday night looks mostly clear up here so keep your fingers crossed!

LOL well of course we hit a Kp of 6 this morning briefly and it is now a 5. Oh well. With that said there is some hope as an M7.9 flare erupted and likely produced a CME. We will have to wait and see if it is full halo and Earth bound.

Yeah the Kp barely reached 4 which isn't going to do it. The CME hit way too early and was weak.

Thank you! I was hoping for another chance tonight but that now appears much less likely.

Damn it! That is way too early.

I was blown away that they were directly overhead if not a little behind in some cases. They were not far off from reaching Alaska caliber at the peak. The only issue was the clouds.

Here is one more:

Here is the best of what I got while fighting the clouds:

The pulses were incredible and had some lights directly overhead. This is a quick pic from the night but much more to come tomorrow (note: the cloud is in motion so that of course is blurred):

Wow just exploded here with rods and pulsing lights!

Faint naked eye greens here through holes in clouds but not great. Some purples show up on camera. Clouds enacting a screw job lol.

I am sticking it out.

I am calling bust. K Index down to 4. By now I should be seeing the first hints of it on camera and nothing is showing up. Also there are quite a few debris clouds streaming in from the great Lakes convection.

Spaceweatherlive is saying we are at G5 now.

Yeah it is hard to say. Storms pulse up and down so I wouldn't give up yet. The weather looks favorable here so I am going to try anyway. The question is will the IMF tip south again?

Well it isn't looking good if SWPC is accurate. Storming seems to have stopped for now.

Yeah that is definitely no good. I will still hold out hope.

Yeah we may be scrambling for leftovers at dusk. I only hope it can hold on. It really doesn't get much better than that. G4 right now.

Looks like we have chance tonight with some breaks and a G3 possible.

As always this one will be a fight against the clouds here in VT

Those are noctilucent clouds for sure.

Yeah Kp is 6 and unfortunately clouds. I went out to try and instead ended up with this: