Chris Stubenrauch

Chris Stubenrauch

Space physicist sharing aurora forecasts
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Chris Stubenrauch is the founder of Aurora Forecast Tonight, an aurora forecasting tool built to give people honest, hyperlocal answers about when they'll actually be able to see the northern lights. Chris's background is in space weather operations, having worked with the Department of Defense and NASA on space weather monitoring and analysis, including hands-on experience measuring coronal mass ejections (CMEs) on the operations floor. He has also written as "Space Weather Watch" for several years, covering solar activity and geomagnetic storms for a general audience.

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  • Aurora Forecast Tonight
    Aurora Forecast TonightNorthern lights forecasts with clouds by zip code.
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Aurora Forecast Tonight - Northern lights forecasts with clouds by zip code.

Unlike typical aurora trackers that just show a Kp-index and a blurry oval map, this site factors in cloud model data to give you an actual visibility percentage for your exact ZIP or postal code, plus real-time alerts when a solar storm is Earth-directed and when it actually arrives, so you know exactly when to step outside.
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