Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in England tonight and tomorrow

Re:Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in Englan... by dekerta on Sunday February 26, 2023 @10:27PM (#34952586)

I like taking photos of the aurora, and I often use NOAA's forecasts to plan sightings.

I wanted the forecast in a simple non-video format, and was tired of doing the mental math converting from UTC, so I made my own tool to show Kp forecast values (from NOAA) in the user's local timezone. Here it is in case it can be useful to anyone else:

https://auroraoutlook.com

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Re:Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in Englan... by emsixteen on Monday February 27, 2023 @02:17AM (#34953918)

Nice one. Would be nice to have it location based, not just adjust to timezone.

Another great tool from over here that I've made use of a lot is Tromsø Geophysical Observatory's magnetometer stackplots page[1], but not for forecasting obviously.

[1] https://flux.phys.uit.no/stackplot/

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Re:Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in Englan... by e12e on Monday February 27, 2023 @06:07AM (#34955122)

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Re:Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in Englan... by codingminds on Monday February 27, 2023 @04:07AM (#34954461)

A nice page, but I highly suggest to add a hint which timezone it shows. I opened it and was totally frustrated to not knew if it's UTC, my timzone or something else.

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Re:Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in Englan... by dekerta on Monday February 27, 2023 @09:13AM (#34956582)

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll add that

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