Posted by WorldPeas 1/19/2026
Yesterday I just would have had to walk to the balkony to see it, but I was busy with some frustrating coding problem instead ..
It will notify you when you’re in an area with a high Kp (or above a Kp you specify).
At this strength, I could see the full display including colors with my naked eye in Melbourne, May 11th 2024. This storm is slightly stronger than that event.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110529.html
If you manage to pull off the Aurora Australis above a triple curl at The Right with a shark body surfing into the green room ... the internet will explode.
What is useful is KAus and the G index, KAus is shown on this page, so thats what i'll be tracking.
But now we have a bunch of kids in different schools and haven't updated our plan.
Does anyone have a plan for what happens if we have a really bad event?
I don't know how much you can plan for that other than "if it happens, try to get home", and then all the usual prepper stuff.
Depending on the kids' ages, you can teach them quite a lot about the Earth's magnetic field and why the aurora concentrates at the poles, how the high-energy particles light up the sky (it's a lot like a neon light), and how the atmosphere shields us from any danger despite the spectacular show.
Flux and bZ!
Sooo much jargon.
G4 storms are ~100 per solar cycle (~11 years).
So roughly 9 G4 events/year on average.
It probably wouldn't make sense to calculate "average snow days per month" across an entire calendar year (in most places...), this is the same thing.
Please stop watching that guy, he is a total fraud and knows nothing about physics.
Judging by this picture: https://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/animations/ovation/nor... , I think in a few hours the whole North Europe can see it very clearly.