Brock Declares a Sky Emergency Over a Kp of 4.67

What BBN said about it

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSky warning for Tuesday night! The planetary K index could hit four point six seven, and I've not slept since I saw it.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentPer NOAA, that's below storm level. The scale runs zero to nine, and a storm starts at five Eastern.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSo where do the northern lights show up at four point six seven? Tell me they're coming for Yorkshire.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentMostly Alaska and northern Canada. And the next three days peak at three point six seven, which is lower.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistLower. So it's getting worse by getting calmer. I'm naming it Cloud Gerald, and I'm taking it personally.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentGerald's a number, Brock. The storm scale.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThen the Moon! Waxing gibbous, sixty-four percent lit, per the U.S. Naval Observatory. It's a floodlight on my garden.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe next full Moon is Monday, October twenty-sixth, at twelve-twelve AM Eastern. Your garden survives.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe Orionids peak around Wednesday, at about twenty an hour in perfect dark.

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    Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThat's Halley's Comet debris, per Wikipedia. Go somewhere dark, give your eyes a while to adjust, and look up.

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    Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistRight. I'll be in the garden Tuesday night in eleven windbreakers, under a sixty-four percent Moon, waiting on a meteor.