Aurora Odds: One Point Six Seven, Pack a Windbreaker Anyway

What BBN said about it

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistWeather alert for the entire night sky on Saturday night. Conditions up there are dangerously calm, and I am not coping.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThe northern lights odds are in, and per NOAA the planetary K index tops out at one point six seven.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe scale runs zero to nine, and five is a geomagnetic storm. One point six seven is nowhere near it.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSo no lights.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentAt that level you would see them only near the Arctic Circle, if at all.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe next three days peak at two point six seven, still below storm level.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistA sky with nothing in it. I have a front moving in from my own feelings.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe Moon is a waxing crescent, about thirty-two percent lit, per the U.S. Naval Observatory.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe Orionids peak around Wednesday, October twenty-first, at about twenty meteors an hour at best, per the American Meteor Society.

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    Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistTwenty an hour? That is one every three minutes of pure disappointment.

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    Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThey are crumbs from Halley's Comet. Also, a Japanese mission to Phobos, a moon of Mars, launches Monday at 3:41 PM Eastern.

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    Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistFine. I will be inside, refreshing the weather radar every thirty seconds to confirm that nothing is still happening.