App Detail » Northern Light Aurora Forecast

What's New

-fixed bug in long term forecast

App Description

Aurora Alerts is an app designed to monitor real-time auroral activity and push alert to let you know if there may be aurora borealis (northern lights) visible tonight. Whenever you are home or away, Aurora Alerts will notify you if the possibility of seeing the northern lights exists.

Main features:
- short-term aurora forecast for next hour with weather conditions and moon Illumination
- long-term aurora forecast for the next 3 days with weather conditions
- long-term northern lights forecast for the next 27 days
- show probability to see Northern Lights based on your or custom location
- current auroral activity (based on observed and predicted Kp Indices from U.S. Air Force Weather Agency)
- weather forecast to check visibility conditions before planning to see northern lights
- solar wind data directly from the NASA satellite (wind speed, Bz, Bt and density)
- unlike many other apps, it uses the local time instead of UTC

Alerts:
- when northern lights may be visible at current or custom location at the horizon or overhead
- Kp index reaches chosen value
- solar wind data reach chosen values
- you can filter out alerts based on time of the day

Boost your chances of viewing the northern lights!

App Changes

• November 05, 2016 Initial release
• June 14, 2019 New version 1.4.2
• August 28, 2019 New version 1.4.3
• September 24, 2019 New version 1.4.4
• September 26, 2019 New version 1.4.5
• October 05, 2019 New version 1.4.6
• December 10, 2019 New version 1.4.7
• December 24, 2019 New version 1.4.8
• December 31, 2019 New version 1.4.10
• July 14, 2020 New version 1.4.11
• October 23, 2020 New version 1.4.13
• August 06, 2021 New version 1.4.16
• September 16, 2023 New version 1.4.19