Since Sunday, there has been a lot of a CME activity, and it seems we will likely see a lot of aurora tonight.
Here’s the current conditions as of about 5:20 pm:
All the blue shows that auroral activity has been very low for the last 24 hours. That little uptick at the end shows more instability.
Now, here’s the forecast:
Blue indicates calm conditions, green indicates unsettled, yellow indicates active, and red indicates a full auroral storm. As you can see, between 9 pm and 2 am we have the best chances for aurora. On the forecast during that time, we are expected to be around 10-30% cloud cover, with less earlier in that time frame.
So, watch for aurora tonight!
If you’re looking for the latest current conditions, try https://spaceweather.gc.ca/data-donnee/geomag/ssp-1-en.php. This shows a bunch of different stations across Canada!
For the forecast, go to https://spaceweather.gc.ca/forecast-prevision/short-court/sfst-5-en.php.
https://www.aurorawatch.ca also has some nice hourly measurements for specifically Edmonton.
Finally, https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/space/surface/level/anim=off/overlay=aurora/orthographic=-107.56,59.02,705 has a pretty nice interactive map for the next hour’s aurora. Click “earth” in the bottom right, then in “Control” use the little arrows to move back and forth in time.