Kp 4.67: Brock Braces for Aurora Over Alaska

What BBN said about it

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSevere sky warning for Saturday night. NOAA has the aurora at a K index of four point six seven, and I am not calm.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe scale runs zero to nine, and five is a geomagnetic storm. Four point six seven is below storm level.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSo it's nearly a storm. It's loitering outside the storm, looking in the window.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentAt that level the northern lights show up mostly in Alaska and northern Canada. The three-day forecast peaks at the same number.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThree days of it? So nobody south of Canada gets a thing.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentCorrect. And the Moon is a waning gibbous, about seventy-four percent lit, per the Naval Observatory.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSeventy-four percent. That's a floodlight on a night shift.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentRocket Lab has an Electron launch from New Zealand Monday at eleven AM Eastern, status to be confirmed. It carries a radar satellite for iQPS.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistFine, but where do I stand to watch that one?

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    Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentNowhere useful.

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    Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentGo outside, let your eyes adjust for twenty minutes, and look north for Orionid meteors, up to about twenty an hour, from Halley's Comet.

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    Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistTwenty an hour under a seventy-four percent Moon. I'll be standing in a field, waving at a lamp.