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Brock Issues a Warning for a Perfectly Calm 3.67

NOAA's three-day forecast peaks at a K index of 3.67, below storm level, so Arctic Circle residents may see lights; everyone else gets the Moon.

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  1. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentPer NOAA, three point six seven is the highest it gets, and the scale runs zero to nine. Storm level starts at five Eastern.

  2. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSo it's close to a storm.

  3. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentIt's below one. At that level the northern lights show only near the Arctic Circle, if at all.

  4. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentAnd the forecast stays at three point six seven for three days.

  5. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistIf at all. I've bought a flask for the Arctic Circle in my head and now I have to return it.

  6. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThen the Moon. It's a waxing gibbous, about ninety-five percent lit, per the U.S. Naval Observatory.

  7. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentFull Moon arrives at twelve-twelve AM Eastern on Monday, October twenty-sixth.

  8. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistNinety-five percent. That's a floodlight with an opinion on my garden.

  9. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe Orionids peaked around Wednesday, October twenty-first. Twenty an hour at best, under a perfectly dark sky, and the debris comes from Halley's Comet.

  10. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistHalley's Comet. Twenty an hour. With that Moon, I'll see two and name them both.

  11. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentWhat you can actually do is go outside and look up.

  12. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentStarlink Group fifteen-sixteen, twenty-seven satellites, launches from Vandenberg at twelve forty-five AM Eastern on Tuesday, October twenty-seventh.

  13. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistRight.

  14. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSaturday night, me, a flask, and a Moon bright enough to show I came alone.

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