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This is the coronal hole... it's early and extra fast.  Solar wind has increased and the last one-minute reading was 700.3 with a BT of 14-20 and a choppy but predominately negative Bz.  I could definitely see a G3 with easy naked eye visibility tonight.

 

IOW, keep an eye out. Am I signed up for your text alerts?

Most in this forum only have about 4 solar cycles left before we die.

Why'd you have to go there?

Full moon ftl

you saw the same aurora i did, it happened my freshman year at LSC which was 96-97...but i don't know if it happened right before 96 ended or right after 97 started...

Lisa has never seen me drunk. It's funny how you change with time.

There was a nice, perfect green arc stretching across the sky up to about 30 degrees, tall rays only lasted about 2 minutes.  Just a faint glow more to the west now.

 

Did anyone else catch that awesome meteor in the eastern sky?  Big and bright orange, ultimately splitting into a couple pieces before fading out.

 

The next arrival of good solar wind should kick the activity up again...the Bz has been holding even lower, but the density has dropped even further.  Hard to get bright activity with a density of 2-3 protons.

It's south right now. We'll see how long it lasts. Kp is down to 5 after maxing at 8 a couple hours ago.

Noctilucents clouds > aurora?

 

https://twitter.com/NWSSeattle/status/608232353488502785

There still appears to be a faint greenish glow to the north with the naked eye.

In the Lakes Region? That's awesome.

03 was insane. I was working in Bedford at the time. It wasn't even dark yet and the show was amazing. Lots of pinks and greens like Eek's pic.

Does the human eye see this. The pics out of Finland are surreal

I saw stuff like that in 2003.

I noticed the faint green on the northern horizon earlier too.

Yeah? Wow, I didn't realize that. I only had a passing interest back then, so I don't think I spent more than a few moments looking upward for that one. It's pretty incredible to read the accounts of zenithal coronas over Chicago and NYC in 1859, 1882, etc., knowing how difficult it is to even see diffuse greens on the horizon.

 

I got lazy and hooked my camera up to an intervalometer for some warmup time indoors. Will check again in a bit.

Time for Eek to post his 2003 corona.

That period of higher density and lower Bz from an hour ago should be here by now.

 

Too bad these troll squalls won't leave me alone.

Clear here and nada.

God damn Bz trying to pull its usual well timed flip.  Maybe it'll level out.

 

 

Bz flirting positive now.

That not-so-perfect period a few hours ago led to the slight kp drop.

 

Bt is climbing and Bz is dropping. Looks really good.  Wouldn't be surprised if it went back to 8, just need the density to stop dropping.

 

Get the camera ready. I'm contemplating turning the wx camera more northerly and upward tonight.

Kp "down" to 7 at 21z.

The euro has busted before and will bust again. Boxing Day '10 is another example except that one went in everyone's favor. It's not infallible. The biggest problem is that it was so consistently wrong. Had it flopped around a couple of runs it would've been easier to discount it. I went to bed not expecting much after the big cave east last night...even though it still creamed me. Consensus usually wins.

euro was correcting East for several runs in a row . Rgem shifts twice in a row more of us should have jumped

Crush job at 18z. Full on blizzard conditions given the 900 mb wind speeds too.

Sorry to those to the west.....wouldn't want to be in their forums right now.

Nice hit for E NH, E MA, and ME though.

Euro caves quite a bit.

This thing is still east of the Delmarva and it's getting written off. All I'm saying. It's heading due north right now. Not northeast.

I'm only posting what the GFS is showing. I'm not saying I buy it or the RGEM. I can't imagine the Euro busting that badly in 1 run at T minus 0. I'm enjoying the model mayhem...it keeps met jobs.

b**ch and whine whether its cold and dry or a blizzard. I think I need a break. It's no fun

Easy to say when you're in one of the perfect spots for this. Many on here were under 24-36" and are in danger of getting the rug pulled out under them. lol

Hey kids...so you wanna be a meteorologist?

Still a good hit for ENE, but my condolences to WNE.

I think the euro is going to cave harder than we think tonight.