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CME advisories, geomagnetic storm windows, and aurora alerts for the UK chasing community. Forecasts cross-checked against em.wispayr.online and NOAA SWPC.

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Latest alert11 May 2026

Aurora watch — 15–16 May 2026

CME glancing blow forecast for Friday night into Saturday morning. G1 storm conditions possible; Scotland is the watch zone.

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Forecasts here are stitched from NOAA SWPC (ENLIL + OVATION-Prime), EUMETSAT MTG-LI, and our own observatory at em.wispayr.online. The live aurora dashboard updates every few minutes; this section captures the longer-form advisories worth setting an alarm for.

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Southern UK · 2026 season

Tonight's aurora map

Cloud cover averaged 22:00–04:00 local, sorted cleanest first. Each site's Kp threshold is the rough naked-eye floor for that latitude — bring a camera, the floor drops about a tier.

peak Kp 2.0

Aberdeen
57.1° N · Kp ≥ 5 floor
87% cloud
cleanest 01:00@ 53%
below floor
Scarborough (N. Yorks Moors)
54.3° N · Kp ≥ 6 floor
91% cloud
cleanest 03:00@ 46%
below floor
Stornoway (Outer Hebrides)
58.2° N · Kp ≥ 4 floor
97% cloud
cleanest 01:00@ 87%
below floor
Aviemore (Cairngorms)
57.2° N · Kp ≥ 4 floor
97% cloud
cleanest 23:00@ 92%
below floor
Ullapool (Highlands)
57.9° N · Kp ≥ 4 floor
99% cloud
cleanest 01:00@ 92%
below floor
Lerwick (Shetland)
60.2° N · Kp ≥ 3 floor
100% cloud
cleanest 22:00@ 100%
marginal
Thurso (Caithness)
58.6° N · Kp ≥ 4 floor
100% cloud
cleanest 00:00@ 99%
below floor
Inverness
57.5° N · Kp ≥ 4 floor
100% cloud
cleanest 22:00@ 100%
below floor
Ayr
55.5° N · Kp ≥ 5 floor
100% cloud
cleanest 22:00@ 100%
below floor
Edinburgh
56.0° N · Kp ≥ 5 floor
100% cloud
cleanest 22:00@ 100%
below floor
Kielder (Northumberland dark-sky)
55.2° N · Kp ≥ 5 floor
100% cloud
cleanest 22:00@ 100%
below floor
Keswick (Lake District)
54.6° N · Kp ≥ 6 floor
100% cloud
cleanest 22:00@ 100%
below floor

Cloud forecast: open-meteo · refreshes every 15 min.