Little late there. They're talking about last Friday, not this Friday. There is a better chance on Tuesday, either way.
Do they work? I noticed them too. They're a good idea, in theory anyway.
I don't know much conflict was avoided at the merge point but I still saw people needlessly queueing up single file though.
Doesn't matter to some people. If there's a line that forms, for whatever reason, and you aren't behind them in that line if they got there "first", then you are cutting.
Slow down. You are getting ahead of yourself. You missed a very important word in the headline to that story... Could.
The story is just outlining how various conditions/variables are lining up to optimize potential viewing around that date. Will anything happen? Far too early to say. Hell, there's G2 storm watch as we speak which may give better results.
Keep in mind, the big storm that happened recently with the widespread viewing was at one point a G5 storm. It was also possibly one of the strongest storms in 20 years. Not to say that another one couldn't happen again very soon. The famous Halloween storms of 2003 were followed by more in November 2003.
Anyway, in summary: as of right now, nothing is going to happen on June 6th. Check back on perhaps June 3rd or 4th.
Lots of intriguing potential mountain viewing points to choose from.
The magnetic poles would be the ones flipping. Not the literal poles we see on a map, like Uranus or something.
Zero issues with Koodo/Public Mobile. Public has a nice plan that you can use in the USA now as well. Only kink when I used it was you had to select Tmobile to get it to work in some areas.
Also been using Rogers for going on 24 years now and have had little to no issues. Only one I can think of is that there's a large dead zone where you'd be roaming along the river in the River Canard area but other than that, it's been fine for day to day use.
Just look at these comments though. It's a lot of YMMV.
False. Went on a long US road trip just this past April and ran into some. It was by no means a prolific amount, considering the distance covered, but they're out there.
I seem to recall Florida being a hot spot from multiple trips as well.
Looks like another developer out of London.
Omar Srour of Magnificent Homes
Also, they're convoy clown supporters.
Meh. Pretty boring to me.
That said, it's not their property either way so bye bye.
We have a family of 6 plus our beloved pup. I hear you.
So the answer: wherever they're cheapest that week. Flats of eggs go on sale fairly often. Maybe just not at wherever you regularly shop. Look at all the ads for local stores. They have apps/websites that make it easier like Flipp.
Right now Walmart has 30 for 7.97. They're only medium though, if that matters to you. Seen Sobeys and Freshco basically have the same sale a few times as well. I've seen Metro run it pretty regularly for a flat of large eggs. An obvious loss leader at a place like Metro. Probably better to just price match elsewhere unless you're in the area anyway. Although a bonus at expensive places like Metro, they're more likely to have their sale items.
Anyway, be sure to take advantage of any points/bonus offers or whatever that may be available at said store while being sure to pay using a credit card that ideally gives at least 4% cashback on groceries.
These all may not be a huge savings individually but it does add up overall.
As stated, the time on the map is the time of greatest eclipse, not the duration. The maximum duration looks to be about 31 mins.
The most recent one had partial phases totaling over 2 hours. So... great! I guess
Normal. Received many variations of this for years now.
Offers do vary from person to person and time to time. The offers you'll get are partially based on your profile/usage tied to that account, if you haven't caught on. What you buy or don't buy, how often, if it's in one big shop or multiple smaller ones. All of that.
We have multiple PC accounts and just use whatever one has the best deals that week. Sometimes they're the same, often they aren't. Sometimes we mix and match accounts during the same shop. You just break up the transactions between accounts based on offers. Requires some minor organization on your part but not a big deal. And the cashiers don't care, they'll do it happily.
Canada is the third largest reserve of oil on this planet- but because of libs like you we are cucked as a country from ever exploiting that.
Logically, it shouldn't matter what blowhard you vote for or what your political ideology is. We should all agree that as much of that shit as possible should remain in the ground. At this point it's kind of common knowledge what the end result of it's use is. Some folks can pretend not to hear the facts, or comprehend them, all they want.
But, then again, it seems many folks can't think of anyone other than themselves. Hell, a lot of people can't even think of anyone other than their current self, let alone their future self. Their future self might as well be just another random person they don't give a fuck about.
It's that kind of shortsightedness that only makes environmental problems worse. In the end, none of this made up human bullshit matters. A fucked environment is a fucked environment, for everyone. What's worse is when we have the knowledge to stop, or at least hinder, it's ruin... but don't.
So congrats on all that.
As seen here, the current NOAA forecast for tonight is as follows...
- May 12
- 00-03UT 7.67 (G4)
- 03-06UT 7.67 (G4)
- 06-09UT 8.00 (G4)
- 09-12UT 9.00 (G5)
The most intense activity is currently predicted from 9 to 12 Universal Time, which corresponds to 5am to 8am locally. These timings are often wrong, so you have to be somewhat vigilant if you want to see more than a diffuse green glow on the horizon or something.
It's never a sure thing, although this time last night was probably as close as you'll get.
That said, activity at this moment is higher than normal. So it's worth a look. Get somewhere dark.
The NOAA forecast is currently calling for a further increase in activity around 2am followed by possible extreme activity, similar to last night, from 5am to sunrise. Just a forecast though. Reality may be different.
I usually use sites like
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/auroral-activity.html
They pretty much make it pretty clear when something significant is happening, even if you have no clue what the numbers mean. You can also signup to their alerts or download an app. And again, they'll alert you on your phone/email whatever that things are happening.
And there's this site
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-experimental
That's the US government agency NOAA. They are the ones making the predictions that most everyone else takes and runs with.
It's certainly possible.
I'd personally wait for darkness and some hard data before committing to anything but that's because I've seen the lights a lot at this point. If you haven't seen them before or only a handful of times, this may very well be a night you stay up and see what happens.
There looks to possibly be a significant chance of activity on Monday night but the weather that night isn't looking favourable last I looked.
Well you're welcome. I'm definitely not an expert though. I'm just some random amateur that has had an interest in astronomy since at least grade 1 or 2, from what I can remember. So I've been watching some of this stuff for decades now.
Stronger tonight? As it stands, no. But if a CME, or coronal mass ejection, hits Earth tonight during darkness, then maybe. Last night was an exceptional geomagnetic storm so it'd have to be a pretty significant event to be stronger. There could still be something to see tonight regardless as long as the current activity doesn't fade too much.
The good news is that the Sun is still flaring a lot right now (in particular, strong X class flares) and some of those flares are ejecting material towards Earth. So even if it's not stronger tonight or it ends up being a bust, the lights could easily return Sunday or Monday.
There's a lot of detail you can get into if you care to. There's forums elsewhere like here https://community.spaceweatherlive.com/forum/29-space-weather/ where newbs and veterans alike go over all this little stuff. Or simply an overall breakdown of what's happening like this https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/help.html
Spaceweatherlive does have a free app that looks to be basically the same as their website. I would make sure to configure the settings to turn off the settings you don't care about or bump up the ones you do otherwise you'll be getting notifications like crazy at times like now.
I will add this tip... As many people probably realized last night, even if you can't yet see the aurora with your eyes, your camera can often see them first. So if you decide based on whatever website/data/app alert to go to somewhere dark to look only to get there and there's nothing to see, don't necessarily give up right away. Hang around a bit. To my knowledge, the northern lights aren't like a switch where they appear instantly. It takes some time for them to build up. To that end, take some long exposures with whatever camera you have available. Sometimes I might go out in the countryside and see nothing. I'll put the camera up on a tripod and take a 30 second exposure along the northern horizon. It might pickup a diffuse glow in that direction or even an arc of green along the horizon. In the past if that were the case and things are otherwise telling me there might be something to see, I might hang around and see what happens. How long is up to you. Aurora can sort of ebb and flow throughout the night so what you can see can often change from one hour to the next.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-experimental
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/auroral-activity.html
Those are currently my go to sites. I've been religiously checking spaceweather.com everyday for over 20 years since they cover other interesting astronomical events as well, besides just the lights. The last two of those sites offer apps/texting services/notifications to give you alerts when auroral activity and associated events are happening if you don't feel like religiously checking websites. There's other apps that do such things also, but I can't recommend any really as I don't use them.
Anyway, if you want to see the northern lights, there's a lot of data that you can get into the weeds with but basically the things you care about the most are the KP Index and the G storm scale.
The KP index goes from 0 to 9. You usually won't start to see anything down here until at least a kp index level of 7. Tonight was a 9.
The G scale goes from 1 to 5. You usually won't see anything down here until at least a G3 storm. Tonight, for a time, was a G5 storm.
This has a further breakdown about the KP index and the G scale https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/help/the-kp-index.html
Yes, but most likely less intensely. There's some predictions that there'll be more coronal mass ejections (basically, the things that are causing the lights) to hit the Earth over the course of the weekend though, so we'll have to wait and see.
No you can't get into Point Pelee after it closes. You can stay in there if you're camping, and sometimes it's open until midnight for Dark Sky Nights.
It's probably too late now but for your next astronomical trip in these parts... just drive away from city lights and park along a farmer's field somewhere. Plenty of clear horizon all around. That's what we did tonight. Just hopped on the 401 and kept driving until it started getting dark and then pulled off onto some country roads and parked at the first nice cutout to a windmill by a farmer's field.
Alternatively, sometimes I might go to a town park or marina along Lake Erie for aurora viewing. Nice views over the water.
Your best bet is to use an actual space weather/auroral viewing website/app/notification service. Not any other general media.
Bright auroras possible Friday night
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