It is August! That means Alaskans are now on aurora watch. I should’ve posted this last week, but the cloudy weather in my area, near Fairbanks, covered up any potential aurora. You have probably heard that “aurora season” starts August 21 in Fairbanks, Alaska. This is true for tour guides because the sky is darker…
Northern Europe saw a great show overnight, now is it North America’s turn? The solar winds are pretty low, but the Bz has been trending southward. It was -15 Bz earlier! It has been Kp 4 for many hours, and as of this post, Kp 5. Northern Canada and most of Alaska, and maybe further…
Welcome back the darker skies to Alaska! And that means we are on the hunt for auroras again. We left the season last spring with the strange cut off of the season. Locals were still around and looking up to the skies, but the tourism sliced off sharply. We were having the awesome aurora science…
We went from rain and no auroras for awhile to Kp 6! Tonight, auroras are out over Canada, barely dipping down into the northern states. Faint auroras are being seen from Maine to North Dakota. Smoke is thick in the air where the forest fires are, in the areas of the northern Rocky Mountains, to…
Aurora is across the sky! Fairbanks / North Pole 1255am
