On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 08:25:11 +0100, Mike Tullett wrote:

The aurora are even more difficult to forecast than the weather -

I think that can go down as the understatement of the year...

Though I think if you go to the right place, which no doubt a flight
can. You should see something unless it's really very quiet. What does
the small print in the contract say? Do they guarantee seeing the
aurora, is there any form of "get out" clause?

Predicting storms or events that are big enough to be seen a long way
south, like the UK, is the hard bit. It's been pretty quite for a
while now, and as we are on the downward slope of the sunspot cycle
likely to remain quiet for the next 5 years or so. But that doesn't
preclude the odd good display.

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Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail