![]() Weather permitting, highly active auroral displays will be visible overhead from Utqiavik to Bethel, Dillingham and Ketchikan, and visible low on the horizon from King Salmon. On any given night, I/we/you may or may not catch an aurora display due to an infinite amount of variables so, to me, it’s all about the hunt. The aurora forecast is updated daily at midnight UTC. That’s a lot of sunspots! The sun is definitely ramping into solar maximum phase, which should mean more aurora activity. Many Northern Lights trackers make Aurora prediction straightforward to the average person. Propagating sunspots, check out the black & white image of the sun in the lower part of this page. The Northern Lights forecast is all about physics, formulas, and numbers, but don’t worry. ![]() KP index is the next thing I look at, the bigger the better!!!.Negative & Positive cancels out allowing charged particles to stream toward Earth and blammo, 40-to-300 miles above our heads a wonder of the universe happens ~ in color ~ the AURORA!!! The Northern Lights, known scientifically as auroras borealis, are triggered by geomagnetic activity from the sun. A negative polarity (-Bz) solar wind impacting the positive polarity Earth (that’s us, the big bar magnet in the sky) causes a coupling to occur and the energy flows through us. You just want that to be a negative number, period. Great quick visual to show if auroras are tame or wild. Northern Lights In Oregon Tonight + Washington 2023 Aurora Borealis Forecast. The green donut-ring aurora forecast simulation provided by NOAA (I’m in Alaska, USA so that’s our go-to). FOX 12 Chief Meteorologist Mark Nelsen says that there are no guarantees that northern Oregon will be able to see the Northern Lights.As an aurora enthusiast, here’s the main things I look for at a glance on this page:
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