Kp 1.67: Brock Demands a Storm From a Full Moon

What BBN said about it

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistWeather bulletin for the sky on Tuesday night. The northern lights forecast is, and I'm sorry, very low.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe planetary K index is forecast to reach one point six seven at most, on a scale that runs from zero to nine.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistAnd where do I need to be for that?

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentNear the Arctic Circle, if at all. A storm starts at five Eastern. Nobody in your postcode is getting lights.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThree days of it, then. Does it pick up?

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe three-day forecast peaks at one point six seven. It doesn't pick up.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThen give me something. Anything. Rockets?

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentA Falcon 9 launches twenty-seven Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Friday, October thirtieth, at 12:02 AM Eastern. Status is go.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThe Moon is ninety-nine percent lit. That's a floodlight, and it's aimed at my garden like an interrogation.

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    Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThat also washes out the Orionids. Even in a perfectly dark sky it's about twenty meteors an hour, debris from Halley's Comet.

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    Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentSo go outside, let your eyes adjust, and look at the Moon.

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    Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistI stood in my garden for forty minutes, and the only thing lit up over my house was a full Moon that wasn't even looking at me.