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How to read a NOAA Wind Graph It’s a ritual of mine to note the first day that the wind shifts North at the end of the Dog Days. This is the day for which one waited: perhaps tied to the floating docks at the public landing, if you were lucky to get a spot, […]

Forecast: August 15 UTC 5:48

August 15, 2025

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| 5:58 am

1:48 am Maine earth time/5:48 UTC a very weak substorm is developing. If you are in the clear, in a situation of non-light pollution and conditions IMPROVE very slightly, there is a possibility of sighting on camera. Still struggling with the moon. Actually conditions are improving. Our current numbers are Solar Wind Speed: 435 km/sec, […]

August 14-15

August 15, 2025

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| 12:14 am

Good evening and welcome to a late “welcome to the new universal day.” Most of the Great State of Maine is socked in clouds currently, but Laurie, one of our admin team on the MABW, alerted me to the fact that Northern Aroostook is not. There is a VERY weak substorm in progress, and if […]

Into the Stillness

August 13, 2025

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| 10:14 pm

Absence, hear thou my protestationAgainst thy strength, distance, and length;Do what thou canst for alteration:For hearts of truest mettleAbsence doth join, and Time doth settle. -John Donne I am alone here in the still of the moment when the velvet ink coverlet of the night still shields the stars from the light. Well, not really […]

August 12-13

August 13, 2025

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| 3:15 am

Welcome to the new universal day, Star Date 00:00 UTC August 13, 2025. We’re having a very small substorm burst right now, probably absolutely no way of seeing anything with the brightness of the moon still, but, it’s happening and who knows. Even if you don’t see an aurora, it is an absolutely gorgeous night […]

Venus and Jupiter Conjunction

August 13, 2025

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| 2:48 am

When it’s hot, these Dog Days, I bring horses out to graze in the cool of the morning, wandering around the farm before others are up and hopefully before the assault of the morning commute begins. My livestock guard dog wakes me up every morning at 3:30 am, and really, I don’t want to wake […]

Of Dog Days, Crickets, and Little Debbie Snack Cakes

August 10, 2025

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| 10:51 pm

Good evening and welcome to tonight’s forecast, Star Date August 10, 23:06 UTC, complete with a minor Radio Blackout alert. I’m sitting here back at the Weather Desk after an afternoon at one of my day gigs delivering groceries. Well, if you call them groceries. I don’t think Swiss Rolls are a food group. I […]

Hello travelers all!

July 27, 2025

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| 10:31 pm

This is the aurora diary of Lizzie Dickerson, founder and admin of the Maine Aurora Borealis Watch. Here, I am working to archive my former forecasts and writings, and on a daily basis, create more extended content to do with space weather forecasting and other signs and wonders, easier to find and refer to than […]

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Forecast: August 15 UTC 5:48

August 14-15

Into the Stillness

August 12-13

Venus and Jupiter Conjunction

Of Dog Days, Crickets, and Little Debbie Snack Cakes

Hello travelers all!