{"id":114813,"date":"2025-01-03T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/aurora-forecast-through-the-week-of-dec-29-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T06:30:00","slug":"aurora-forecast-through-the-week-of-dec-29-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/aurora-forecast-through-the-week-of-dec-29-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora forecast through the week of Dec. 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>These forecasts are courtesy of the University of Alaska Fairbanks&rsquo; Geophysical Institute and available online, along with more data, at <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gi.alaska.edu\/monitors\/aurora-forecast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.gi.alaska.edu\/monitors\/aurora-forecast<\/a>.<\/em><em> The listings below will be updated and published weekly until next spring.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, Jan. 4 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quiet aurora activity forecasted. If skies are clear, quiet displays may be visible directly overhead from Utqia&#289;vik to Fort Yukon, and may be visible low on the horizon from Fairbanks to as far south as Unalakleet, Talkeetna and Tok. Moon phase: Waxing Crescent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, Jan. 5 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moderate aurora activity forecasted. If skies are clear, moderate displays may be visible overhead from locations such as Utqia&#289;vik to as far south as Talkeetna, and may be visible low on the horizon as far south as Bethel, Soldotna and Southeast Alaska. Moon phase: Waxing Crescent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday, Jan. 6 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moderate aurora activity forecasted. If skies are clear, moderate displays may be visible overhead from locations such as Utqia&#289;vik to as far south as Talkeetna, and may be visible low on the horizon as far south as Bethel, Soldotna and Southeast Alaska. Moon phase: Waxing Crescent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday Jan. 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Low aurora activity forecasted. If skies are clear, low-level displays may be visible overhead from Utqia&#289;vik to Fairbanks, and may be visible low on the northern horizon from as far south as Anchorage and Juneau. Moon phase: First Quarter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, Jan. 8 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Low aurora activity forecasted. If skies are clear, low-level displays may be visible overhead from Utqia&#289;vik to Fairbanks, and may be visible low on the northern horizon from as far south as Anchorage and Juneau. Moon phase: First Quarter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, Jan. 9 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Low aurora activity forecasted. If skies are clear, low-level displays may be visible overhead from Utqia&#289;vik to Fairbanks, and may be visible low on the northern horizon from as far south as Anchorage and Juneau. Moon phase: First Quarter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, Jan. 10 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Active aurora activity forecasted. If skies are clear, active auroral displays may be visible overhead from Utqia&#289;vik to Anchorage and Juneau, and may be visible low on the horizon from King Salmon and Ketchikan. Moon phase: First Quarter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, Jan. 11 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moderate aurora activity forecasted. If skies are clear, moderate displays may be visible overhead from locations such as Utqia&#289;vik to as far south as Talkeetna, and may be visible low on the horizon as far south as Bethel, Soldotna and Southeast Alaska. Moon phase: Waxing Gibbous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>These forecasts are courtesy of the University of Alaska Fairbanks&rsquo; Geophysical Institute and available online, along with more data, at <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gi.alaska.edu\/monitors\/aurora-forecast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.gi.alaska.edu\/monitors\/aurora-forecast<\/a>.<\/em><em> The listings below will be updated and published weekly until next spring.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":114814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[945],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-114813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-northern-lights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114813"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=114813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}