Posted by WorldPeas 1 day ago
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).
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.
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What is useful is KAus and the G index, KAus is shown on this page, so thats what i'll be tracking.
Sooo much jargon.
Flux and bZ!
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.