Auroral Storm over Ireland.

Martin and Conor, two of our members from Maghera had a brilliant view, check out our Forum for full report on what they saw.

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Johnmc.

Does anyone know what the weather will be like tonight in Kildare? Vis satellite from Met Eireann looks woeful....

Dave

hi Dave,

welcome on board!

Met Eireann only seem to update their satellite photo once a day so I tend to go to the UK Met Office site -- www.met-office.gov.uk/

the UK Met Office satellite pictures are updated hourly and the Infra-Red view is showing a clearance slowly moving in from the northwest so early morning before dawn should see some clear spells.

the latest forecast of aurora is more of the same POSSIBLY in the next couple of days. Check out www.sec.noaa.gov/forecast.html . . . specifically the mention in section IIB.

I also use the very useful Aurorawatch UK site that can be found at www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/aurorawatch/ -- this is a magnetometer, used to measure fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field, which is hooked up to the Internet. When you see the graph in the red hit the ground running to the nearest dark site! You can subscribe to aurora alerts here. The site is useful in that it gives magnetic conditions local to the British Isles. Valentia Observatory have a magnetometer too but I haven't seen any output from it in yonks.

finally, www.spaceweather.com is where there's some nice introductions to the field of Solar-Terrestrial weather.

all the best,

John Flannery,
South Dublin Astro. Soc.

John - hope you don't mind me linking back to your post above to respond to a similar question posed on the .com site. Saves me doing all the google leg-work...