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Our “Skies Over West Seattle” correspondent Alice Enevoldsen says tonight brings the best chance in years of aurorae – “Northern Lights” – in our area, so now that it’s dark, we’re starting a sky watch. Above, a map Alice made overnight with suggested West Seattle-area viewing spots, if you can’t just hit the road and drive away from the city.
9:04 PM: From Alice via Twitter:
@westseattleblog SKY IS OFFICIALLY GETTING REDDER in the NE
— Alice Enevoldsen (@AlicesAstroInfo) September 13, 2014
9:30 PM: Tweeted by Patrick:
@westseattleblog Faint green hue off to my north here in high point
— Patrick kelly (@MetPatrick22) September 13, 2014
10:41 PM: Hope is fading, Alice tweets:
we're down below Kp 4. That may be it for tonight.
— Alice Enevoldsen (@AlicesAstroInfo) September 13, 2014
We’ll be watching for a while longer, just in case.
12:58 AM: No miraculous appearance, so far as we can tell, combing Twitter (and elsewhere) for reports, and checking comments. (Alice tweeted about an hour ago that she’d seen some meteors, though. A clear sky always has SOMETHING worth watching.)
5:32 AM: We’ve been up all night but no sign of major Northern Lights (as commenters from all over the region were saying, too). Maybe tonight? We’ll be watching, again.
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