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Whether tonight is worth heading out for the northern lights — space-weather activity, cloud cover and the hours of darkness, together.
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Possible — keep an eye out
There’s a chance. Worth a glance outside if you’re up, especially well away from town lights.
Skies look mostly clear over the dark hours.
| Night | Dark hours | Expected Kp | Sky |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon, Aug 24 | 22:30–04:20 | 1.3 | Cloudy |
| Tue, Aug 25 | 22:30–04:20 | 1.7 | Cloudy |
| Wed, Aug 26 | 22:20–04:30 | 1.7 | Clear |
Churchill sits almost directly beneath the band where the northern lights appear most often. On a dark, clear night the aurora can show even when geomagnetic activity is only moderate — which is why the town has built a winter season around it.
The clearest, darkest viewing tends to come from late autumn through to early spring, away from the long daylight of summer. The coldest months are also often the clearest.
Space weather is only half the story. A storm overhead does nothing if cloud is in the way, so this page weighs the cloud forecast over the dark hours alongside the activity.
Updated August 23 at 8:49 p.m.. The aurora is famously unpredictable. This blends NOAA’s space-weather model with the cloud forecast and the hours of darkness — it can point you to a promising night, but it can’t promise a show. Official forecast: swpc.noaa.gov. Space weather: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (public domain). Cloud & daylight: Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
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