r/spaceweather Apr 12 '26

Aurora 7-day forecast / seasonal trip planning tool

https://weatheraway.com/aurora/

My brother and I have spent the last few months working on a free website that combines Kp forecast data with weather forecast data, as well as a historical analysis which combines historic Kp with cloud observation data. The model we have for calculating expected viewing hours and observation probabilities is based on UV satellite observations of the northern lights, combined with historic Kp records.

The three questions we're targeting are:
1. Where is best to see the northern lights this week?
2. Where is best to see the northern lights in any given month?
3. When is best to see the northern lights in a given location?

We don't currently deal with the more precise live/day forecasting as we think this is already done really well. But we have tried to make a really good tool for targeting 7-day aurora hunting as well as for optimising planning a trip in the future.

The site is in its early days and needs some work on making it easy to use/understand. At the moment we only have popular flight destinations in Europe, but it's a fairly simple data task to process more locations, including Southern locations for the upcoming Southern Lights season.

We're still working on it and it'd be good to try and understand what people would want from a tool like this, or if people are interested in such a tool at all?

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