Northern Lights Iceland 2018 Forecast
Forecast chart provided by icelandic met office.
Northern lights iceland 2018 forecast. Highly unusual maybe your friends and relatives at home will see the northern lights too. Short term and long term aurora forecasts as well as current data. October 21 2018 2 04 am. That s when you ll have your.
Image should be used as a guide only it is based on predicted geomagnetic. Moderate but with good chances to catch the northern lights. At a glance the chart may seem a little intimidating but it s very easy to read. On the map there are different areas of light green versus dark.
Producing aurora forecasts for iceland based on space and earth weather predictions including moonlight and weather warnings. A big solarstorm is coming don t miss your chance to catch some amazing aurora displays. On average the sun revolves on its axis once every 27 28 days as seen from earth. As you can see there is a map of iceland.
The aurora forecast is in universal time utc which is eight hours ahead of alaska time. According to the swpc s 3 day aurora forecast the best time to be out aurora hunting will be the night of july 23 from sunset to 1am. It is made out of 100 000 raw high res images that combined result in a 30 min long northern lights video. Using real time solar wind data from nasa s ace spacecraft matched with data obtained from a network of magnetometers located worldwide we are able to forecast with reasonable accuracy how the northern lights will behave up to one hour in advance the image shows estimated aurora activity now.
Aurora prediction and northern lights forecast 27 day aurora forecast. Northern lights scotland forecast northern lights my telegraph june 21st 2013 11 56 pm forecasting scotland does not have any forecasting service so probably the northern lights forecast in iceland is the closest. This means midnight universal time is 4 p m. The forecast of auroral activity at midnight scale 0 to 9 is shown in the upper right box.
The map of iceland shows forecast of cloud cover. Green areas are cloudy and white areas clear skies. The scale changes in accordance with the date selected under the cloud. Move the slider below the cloud cover map or click directly on a day or time.
Three independent film makers from iceland have been at 50 different locations around iceland spend 130 nights last 3 years to create one amazing time lapse northern lights video. This is a very helpful tool for predicting auroras. If you want to know alaska s night forecast from midnight to sunrise when the aurora is often more active you should look at the next day s forecast. This is the most usual forecast.
Northern lights iceland forecast chart.