Aurora

supersonic

Cast your eyes north tomorrow night! 35% chance of seeing it apparently. Will need very dark skies.

Whytepeak

Ooooo, sounds good, i shall monentarilly look skywards, then continue searching for that damn srew that fell off my brake caliper :x

dunker

any reason for it maybe happenening this far south?

GT Destroyer

Could be a real Valentines treat!

Look up now darling

Seriously though will you be able to see it you reckon? We are forecast for clear skies here I think.

I think theres no rain/clouds forecast and no rain for a couple of days, no clouds mean dark skies?

Andy

I will be looking out on the slim chance of seeing it in Birmingham! I won't hold my breath though!

supersonic

UK gets a few days per year when it can be seen - further north the more chance, and more chance in an active sunspot cycle.

Light pollution can be a problem from the cities!

This little outburst due to a heavy solar wind stream sending a stream of particles towards the Earth. This compresses the magnetic field and tips the aurora further south.


Current map can be shown here:;

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/gif/pmapN.gif

Hopefully towards midnight those ornage colours will be close to the UK!

docker0141

it's cloudy in glasgow

Andy

Yeah wasn't a prayer of seeing it here last night.

supersonic

Or here :-(

eddyesi

Am off to Norway next weekend for a bit of Aurora watching, gonna be chilly but hoping to catch it properly in the arctic circle 8)