Kp 5 Forecast: Brock Meets a Very Small Aurora

What BBN said about it

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentPer NOAA, the planetary K index peaks at five on a scale of zero to nine. That is a G1 storm, the mildest one.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistA storm is a storm, Nina. Where do the northern lights reach?

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentPossibly along the Canadian border and in Alaska. The three-day forecast also tops out at five.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSo the lights could reach the border. And I'm standing here in a studio, with a window.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe Moon is a waning gibbous, about eighty-three percent lit, per the Naval Observatory. It will wash out faint aurora anyway.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistEighty-three percent. It's a floodlight with a grudge.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentMeteors are weaker still. The Orionids are Halley's Comet debris, and at best about twenty an hour, per the American Meteor Society.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistTwenty an hour. That's one every three minutes, and I'd name each one.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentWhat to actually do is go somewhere dark and give your eyes twenty minutes. Look north, and bring a coat.

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    Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistTwenty minutes in the dark, looking north, coat on. Then one cloud shows up, and I'm calling it Nina.