by Tryggvi Már Gunnarsson
It has been quiet … After a nice gust of solar storm, it has been slow in the aurora field the last couple of days. Kp-index has been low but with clear skies some people have seen some faint auroras low on the horizon, facing north. That will most likely be the case tonight, Sunday [...]
by Tryggvi Már Gunnarsson
Aurora Forecast is goooood… Hi all! Tonight, Monday night, aurora activity is likley to pick up, and increase for the next few days, reaching a maximum of 5/9 on the Kp index tonight So, we are in for a treat. The Icelandic Met Office predicts clear skies over all of the South-Coast, North-East, West-Coast and [...]
by Tryggvi Már Gunnarsson
Aurora forecast for the next couple of days This week starts off with clear skies over almost all of Iceland on Monday night and aurora activity is predicted between 3 and 4 out of 9. Moderate activity but sufficient to produce some nice aurora, on the North horizon. That gives us good hope that aurora [...]
by Tryggvi Már Gunnarsson
Hi all The last 7 days the web has not been functional, due to a meltdown of the servers that hosted the site. This was very inconvenient and I was not able to publish fresh aurora forecasts for the last days. Some of the data was not retrievable. But now it is all back up [...]
by Tryggvi Már Gunnarsson
Aurora hunting conditions Earth continues to travel through some strong and impressive solar winds, igniting magnificient displays of aurora. The last two nights have been amazing where the sky has been clear and people have enjoyed dramatic green skies. The activity forecast is really in our favor the next 3 days with levels up to [...]
by Tryggvi Már Gunnarsson
Aurora Forecast is goooood… Hi all! Tonight, Monday night, aurora activity is likley to pick up, and increase for the next few days, reaching a maximum of 5/9 on the Kp index tomorrow. Clouds are likely to block the view tonight, but as the aurora activity picks up, it might clear up! So, we are [...]
by Tryggvi Már Gunnarsson
Good activity tonight Hi, aurora hunters. It has been a while since I posted here, but I have been on my own aurora hunts and not been properly on line, busy at my dayjob and having some great fun with my family. The picture here to the right is from last weekend’s adventure. Spent two [...]
by Tryggvi Már Gunnarsson
Aurora activity and clear skies The next couple of days look really promising when it comes to aurora hunting! Yet another solar storm is coming, raising activity levels up to 6 / 9 tonight, Wednesday night and tomorrow night levels are predicted at 4-5. As I had mentioned before, it is sometimes the couple of [...]
by Tryggvi Már Gunnarsson
Quiet after the storm Things seem to have calmed down after the geomagnetic storms that have been blazing in the upper layers of the atmosphere last couple of days. Aurora activity tonigh, Monday September 11th, is low and clouds seem to be building up late tonight. So chances of seeing the aurora tonight are rather [...]
by Tryggvi Már Gunnarsson
The aftermath After some incredible geomagnetic activity the last couple of days things are getting calm again. Geomagnetic activity levels went up to 9 on the Kp-index and it does not get higher than that. We had some good aurora display in the south last night. It is my experience that the couple of days [...]