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Brock Braces for a Kp of Three Point Six Seven

NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center forecasts a planetary K index of at most 3.67 for Wednesday, October 21, below storm level; the Orionids peak around the same night.

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  1. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentIt's a Kp forecast, Brock. Per NOAA, the planetary K index peaks at three point six seven on Wednesday night.

  2. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThree point six seven! I've been cancelled for less than that, and it was a Tuesday, and I deserved it!

  3. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentFive is a geomagnetic storm. This is below storm level, so the northern lights show near the Arctic Circle, if at all.

  4. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThe Arctic Circle. Right. Very far from my garden.

  5. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe next three days peak at that same three point six seven. Nothing climbs from there.

  6. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThen there's the Moon, seventy-four percent lit, waxing gibbous, just hanging there like a big porch light left on.

  7. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe Orionids peak around Wednesday, at about twenty meteors an hour under a perfectly dark sky, per the American Meteor Society. Halley's Comet debris.

  8. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistTwenty an hour, at best, under a dark sky, with a porch light on.

  9. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentGo somewhere dark, give your eyes twenty minutes, look up. Bring a chair.

  10. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistFine. Wednesday, garden, best windbreaker, and me waving at a cloud I've already named.

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