Daylight savings time

Holy crap - an astronomical event where we may actually have clear skies!

Northern Lights May visible from areas at or north of the G3 line.

So close

Kp's not good for us, which is good because it's cloudy...

Interesting, local news said should be good tonight, but 2 different Aurora apps say NFW.

Any special time too look?

Any special time too look?

Not tonight, those screenshots say you need to be in Scandinavia or Northern Canada to see it.

Not tonight, those screenshots say you need to be in Scandinavia or Northern Canada to see it.

What about the pic whatknot posted?

What about the pic whatknot posted?

Old news. Aurora forecasters make weather forecasters look clairvoyant.

The Kp was supposed to be 5 right now, but it’s 2.

Old news. Aurora forecasters make weather forecasters look clairvoyant.

The Kp was supposed to be 5 right now, but it’s 2.

Just saw some RED lights in the sky so there :LOL: they were blinking too Has to be the northern lights(y)

Saw them in late October 1980 approaching Potsdam, NY. We were under the influence (I wasn't driving) but I hope to see them again. It was something I'll never forget

Just saw some RED lights in the sky so there :LOL: they were blinking too Has to be the northern lights(y)

You should know that drinking Srewball while smoking the Mule brought down from Maine is dangerous!!

Here's the mandatory "I Told You So" documentation with my bolding of the overstatement.
:p
[HEADING=2]Northern lights viewing will be a ‘big miss,’ U.S. space forecaster says[/HEADING]
[pressherald.com/2020/12/10/northern-lights-viewing-will-be-a-big-miss-u-s-space-forecaster-says/]('https://www.pressherald.com/2020/12/10/northern-lights-viewing-will-be-a-big-miss-u-s-space-forecaster-says/')

By Associated Press December 11, 2020
[IMG alt="The aurora borealis lights up the sky northwest of Lawrence, Kan., in 2004. The phenomenon, also called northern lights, occurs when electrically charged particles from the sun enter the earth's atmosphere."]https://multifiles.pressherald.com/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Northern_Lights_Viewing_75014.jpg[/IMG]
An initially promising U.S. forecast for the northern lights has gone bust.

Stargazers in the continental 48 states have essentially zero chance of seeing the astronomical phenomenon this week, the head of operations at the U.S. government’s space weather prediction center said Thursday.

Curtains of color paint the night sky when the northern lights, or aurora borealis, are visible. Some early reports had suggested they would be viewable as far south as Illinois this week.

Robert Rutledge, the lead of operations at the Space Weather Prediction Center, said the agency had high hopes for Thursday and Friday, but it downgraded its forecast because the chances turned out to be a “big miss.”

He called the disappointing news “not incredibly unusual in space weather forecasting.”

The silver lining for sky watchers is that conditions in the coming months and years look more favorable, Rutledge said.

New England stargazers had hoped to catch a glimpse of the northern lights, but clouds would have made it difficult, said David Clark, a member of Penobscot Valley Star Gazers in Maine.

“I’m sure people are going to try,” he said. “I don’t have high hopes for it.”

Its that time again

and this is the one that I enjoy.

This weekend just a friendly reminder

and I still think it stinks in a friendly way of course

I ain’t worried bout losing / gaining sleep ?, my sleep is all screwed anyway… but cloudy days now is gonna make it darker at 5 o’clock…

news flash: NYS consider a bill to keep daylight savings permanent… cellfish…
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Getting dark at 1630 is just dumb. Even being retired one would think i could care less but its been shown that there is an increase in accidents because of the forced earlier darkness

blame the original time keepers, wtf… cellfish…