MORE aurora tonight
GET READY FOR ROUND 2 TONIGHT!!! Charge those camera batteries, get a nap in, make your plans! Tonight there will be ANOTHER GREAT aurora borealis!
Estimated Kp between 4 and 6. Aurora predicted approximately 60degrees latitude and northward. We will know more later tonight.
Please enjoy all the AWESOME photos that people are posting to this wall. Lots of great feedback with people stating that last night was their first aurora. SO GREAT!!! Glad you saw them!
It sounds like the hot spots with the crowds were: Earthquake Park (Anchorage), Cleary Summit, Chena Lakes in the interior.
Reports onto the Facebook page and messages came in from:
Fairbanks, North Pole, Fox, Haystack, Cleary, Chatanika, Chena Hot Springs, Two Rivers, Ft WW, Eielson, Delta Jct, Moose Creek, Circle, Barrow, Talkeetna, Petersville, Kasilof, Denali, Healy, Nenana, Clear, Anderson, Anchorage, JBER, Wasilla, Palmer, Eagle River, Chugiak, Kenai, Valdez, Flying from SEA to ANC, Peters Creek, Nome, Willow, Soldotna, and Homer.
Other than Alaska: Edmonton (my apologies for not reporting this city in a timely fashion, I did see your requests), Calgary, Greenland, Scotland, Ireland, Norway.
Clouds: areas of MN, MI, Kodiak, Yellowknife.
Thanks for the reports everyone, and helping to spread the word that the aurora was out! Again, the aurora will be seen tonight in much of the state, Canada, and the upper portion of the USA (as of this writing, 245pm)