UAF Forecasts Northern Lights Viewing
November 9, 2006 by Mary Jo Manzanares
Filed under Things to See & Do
If you’ll be traveling in Alaska here is one site that you need to bookmark and come back to often, the University of Alaska at Fairbank’s Geophysical Institute.
There’s a bunch of stuff there that I don’t understand, but the really important information for travelers is that the site tries to forecast the aurora borealis.
The Northern Lights are unpredictable, at best, and I’ve only seen them a handful of times, but now the UAF tries to map out a 28-day forecast. Just like you check the weather forecast, now you can check the aurora borealis forecast.
The downside to the forecasting, however, …read more
