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Yeah a missed opportunity for sure

The lights were out last night, but this is Vermont, so you guessed it, clouds.

Oh I am pretty sure it won't be.

The 2003 aurora display over Long Island is one I will never forget (unfortunately I didn't have a camera capable of taking good photos of it at the time). It was incredible. Half the sky was visibily green and the other half visibly red and it was directly overhead. i was looking right at the Fire Island light which divided the two colors from where I was standing.

The clouds rolled in here. So if anything popped I never saw it.

I got nothing but far off thunderstorms and debris clouds. Where it was clear nothing was showing up.

Yeah I am going to have to actually go a bit south to avoid some junk.

Solar wind is 544 km/s and the Bz is -7.6

It is coming around to our neck of the woods.

Kp may reach 7 tonight! Be ready!

Kp is 6 and the IMF is south for now. Let's see if it holds until after dark!

the moon is very bright. I just went out and any pic I took looked almost day like. If it is there it will be extremely tough to see.

Well that is good then. I was out cold at 11 last night. I wasn't quite sure when the clouds had really rolled in.

I missed it! My app didn't alert me and wake me up

I did not but that could have been due to some low clouds/fog to the north.

A G3 occurred this morning and is now G2 as of this post. Unfortunately of course it is the morning and will go to waste for us aurora lovers.

Apparently the lights were out last night. There are some pics on Spaceweather from VT and Cape Cod. Unfortunately I missed it.

Between approximately 11:30pm to 12:30am and it kept going but it became almost completely overcast at that point.

EDIT: Nevermind, I am seeing it may hit tomorrow which means no dice here due to rain. I had the date off by a day in my head.

Well I wouldn't say that entirely but most likely yes. The G2 last fall gave a show here with visible rods etc. but it certainly didn't match up to earlier this week. A lot will ride on that IMF and if we get a lucky substorm as well.

Yet another Earth directed coronal mass ejection erupted from the Sun this morning. Modeling of the event predicts arrival June 27 at 1700 UT (13:00 EDT). This event is expected to be weaker than the severe geomagnetic storm from earlier in the week. SWPC forecasters are calling for Moderate (G2) geomagnetic storm conditions beginning June 27 and continuing into June 28 So models predict another daytime hit, but storming should persist into Fri night. G2 is enough to get it done here should the IMF be south.

SWPC says it was an asymmetric full halo so at least some of it was Earth directed. Modeling is now in progress.

Basically anywhere there is a clear view north. A mountaintop would be ideal but if not somewhere with a lot of open fields. For me that is up in the Swanton area outside of St. Albans. Obviously you can get darker skies in the NE Kingdom. I wonder if the south end of Lake Willoughby would be good out there. I should note as a rare occurrence the other night the aurora was nearly directly overhead at times and quite bright at times, but certainly away from city lights is almost always necessary. Friday night looks mostly clear up here so keep your fingers crossed!

LOL well of course we hit a Kp of 6 this morning briefly and it is now a 5. Oh well. With that said there is some hope as an M7.9 flare erupted and likely produced a CME. We will have to wait and see if it is full halo and Earth bound.

Yeah the Kp barely reached 4 which isn't going to do it. The CME hit way too early and was weak.