Just woke up to find I missed the northern lights across the skies where I live.
Anyone have a good tracking or alert source? Preferably with notifications of incoming storms.
I use one called AuroraWatch. The notifications are fairly configurable.
Ah this is pulling data from the aurorawatch UK site that I’ve used in the past. Thanks, I’ll check it out!
On android, I use Aurora Notifier for general alerts as well as user-reported sightings shown as dots on the map. I also use Aurora (Pro) for a nice map with current prediction overlay. I’ve gotten many alerts over the last ~2 years with very little viajble activity over my lower attitude. However, the notice that paired with the 10/10/24 event was about substorms. Those give ~30 minute warning.
Whatever you do, there’s a lot of false alarms. We’re headed back to a lower activity part of the solar cycle, but I’m still eager to keep an eye out because it’s still ~5 years before it comes back up to the current activity level.
Depends where you live. I have an app from the university of Lancaster for the UK.
Unfortunately last night was cloudy :(
