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As I'm sure you guys know, besides weather I like photography and space weather events. With the new world of AI it is very hard to know what is "real" to the eye and what has been enhanced or altered. Most of the Aurora photos on the net are slight time exposures or have been brightened or saturated to some degree. One of the biggest questions I see is "did it look like that from the naked eye?" Last night was amazing if you live in a very dark area like I do in Bridgewater NH. The picture I am attaching is unaltered in any way. It is what my Samsung Galaxy S23Ultra saw. Automatic setting by the camera, no adjustment at all by me. Pretty amazing for 1/4second exposure on a cellphone

Looks like high clouds come in after dark. Maybe Sunday night will be better weather wise?

Up here in central New Hampshire I can say that the picture that your commenting on is just how it looked with the naked eye. These were definitely bright and stood out. Clouds now filled in maybe we can get another one in tomorrow night

Potential views into S US states

Crazy beautiful. Rivals a total solar eclipse. Best show of my life. Here are 2 pictures from the house. Samsung 23 ultra. Holding by hand 1 second exposure no post processing! So many colors and curtains that change minute by minute

WOW!!!! Extremely bright with naked eye overhead even to my South curtains of color

WOW!!!!

I'm sitting in my car looking over Newfound Lake to the north and central New Hampshire. Mostly clear skies but cannot see any Aurora yet

Spaceweather page now shows KP all the way down to 3

In 2003 I had just bought my first crappy digital camera and had only lived up here for 2 years since relocating from Metro Boston. That display was so bright that I just held my camera and snapped this picture. No long exposure or anything. It was amazing.

So hard to predict cloud cover tonight. https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=local-Vermont-truecolor-48-1-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined

I see that. KP index 7.7 Will these clouds tend to dissipate after sunset? Moon phase is good too.

The nights of May 9th and May 10th may offer some nice Aurora's. Just passed New Moon. Those pesky clouds though!

70.0F forest canopy leaf out!

Brian, it always seems when I post you beat me to it by 5 or 10 minutes. Enjoy rapid leafout today!

What always amazes me with tornadoes is that severe damage can occur 100 feet away and leave you unscathed. Meanwhile on a much tamer note I'm up to 68.1F as of 2pm. So close to my first 70F. Will I make it today or tomorrow or have to wait another week?

Up to 55F. Mostly cloudy some breaks, few sprinkles.

So much thunder just to my south. Seems like centered over Brian's hood

44.5F Wood stove burning. Cold and raw with lots of deep rumbling to the south. Fringed by TS this morning .12"

Looks like I'm going to be waiting quite awhile for my first 70F. My highest temperature this spring has been 67F. Still stick season in my hood. Zoomed in view from my front yard looking SW. The ski area is Ragged Mtn. Edit: Didn't see PF's post or Brian before I just uploaded. I have always considered the beginning of leaf out is when the Norway Maples pop the big green blobs. Usually just after the Forsythia. This just happened in my area yesterday.

48F Light rain showers. Bit of a bust today? Didn't expect any precip.

Our forest canopy is completely bare in my area of Central NH. Nothing other than some Forsythia and a few flowering fruit trees. No pollen worries up here for awhile.

48.9F for me. 100% sunshine too

24.7F Daffidles were not impressed

We don't do anything special. For some reason, we don't have too many Bluebirds this spring. None have taken up nesting in the boxes. Perhaps they don't like our new Golden Retriever rescue dog that we got last August?