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Seen them a couple of times on nights at Lossiemouth and once in Canada. Really spectacular, especially in Canada as I was drunk at the time. It was like I was tripping out, man.
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That looks handy Jon! 
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Spaceweather. GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH: NOAA forecasters say that minor G1-class geomagnetic storms are possible on Feb. 1-2 when a solar wind stream hits Earth's magnetic field. The gaseous material is flowing from a Southern hole in the sun's atmosphere. Solar wind speeds could jump to 600+ km/s when the stream arrives, sparking bright Arctic auroras !! That looks handy Jon! Or would be if it would run on my tablet...
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Terrestrial weather says clear up til 9pm tomorrow so will have a look out .... Tuesday looks a write off due to cloud .... but it's the weather so who knows🙂
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Spaceweather. CO-ROTATING INTERACTION REGION: What made the auroras of Feb. 2nd so good? It was a co-rotating interaction region (CIR). CIRs are transition zones between slow- and fast-moving solar wind. Solar wind plasma piles up in these regions, creating density gradients and shock waves that can rock Earth's magnetic field. A CIR hit Earth on Feb. 2nd and in the wake of the CIR, solar wind is now blowing around Earth at speeds near 600 km/s. If these conditions persist, more Arctic mind-benders are possible on Feb. 3rd. Tonight might be another possible Keith.
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Cheers Graham .... checked a couple of times last night but partly cloudy and no northern lights on show (was sub-zero and breezy so didn't linger too long out in the dark) ..... will check again tonight!
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What's the best time as I don't want to be standing outside too long? I know it's probably how long a piece of string is.
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Not sure there is a "best" time unfortunately.
Would need to be quite a strong aurora for you to catch the lights as far south as you are though Bob.
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Thanks Graham. It's just one of the things that was on Jess's bucket list which she never managed to do.
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Bob ..... if I spot them anytime I'll drop a message to you on here .... if they're visible here there's a better chance of seeing something further south than if they're just hanging round the Arctic Circle ..... it's very rare, but they have been seen as far south as N Wales and North Norfolk ... but I wouldn't bank on seeing that happen again for a while.
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