Aurora Forecast vs Yourora

The night the aurora finally reaches your sky, you don't want to hear about it the next morning. Aurora Forecast: Borealis tells you — in plain language — whether it's worth stepping outside tonight, and alerts you the moment the lights are likely overhead and the sky is dark where you are. If you've ever chased the northern lights, you know the routine: a dozen browser tabs, a "Kp" number that means nothing without a decoder ring, three apps that disagree, and the quiet fear that the best display of the year happened while you were inside. Most forecasts hand you raw space-weather data and leave you to guess what it means for where you're standing. Borealis does the interpreting for you. IS IT WORTH LOOKING UP TONIGHT? • One clear "chance overhead" reading for your exact location — not a generic global number • An honest one-line verdict that accounts for darkness and moonlight, not just Kp • The numbers that matter, in plain sight: Kp, how far south the oval reaches, darkness, the moon • A "next best night" hint so you know when it's worth planning around REAL FORECASTS, NOT RAW NUMBERS • A 3-day Kp outlook and a live solar-wind snapshot • Built on live NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center data and the OVATION aurora model • Unlock the extended hourly probability and 27-day outlook with Pro GET THE ALERT, NOT THE REGRET (PRO) • A push the moment the aurora is likely overhead and your sky is dark • Set your own probability threshold — only get woken up when it's genuinely worth it • A live preview that shows whether tonight's conditions would alert you SEE HOW FAR SOUTH THE LIGHTS REACH (PRO) • A dark aurora map centered on you, with the OVATION oval drawn live • Watch the band push south toward your latitude in real time • Share a snapshot of the map in one tap KEEP AN AURORA DIARY (PRO) • Log every sighting with the date, place, Kp and a photo • Location, Kp and chance are filled in for you automatically • Export and share your whole record LEARN TO READ — AND SHOOT — THE SKY • Plain-English explainers for Kp, the auroral oval, OVATION, Bz, substorms and more • Starter camera settings for your first night shoot, so the lights actually make it into the photo BUILT FOR REAL LIFE • Aurora chasers who'd rather sleep than stake out a dead sky • People who just moved north and refuse to miss their first winter • Travelers in Iceland, Tromsø, Fairbanks or Yellowknife with a night or two to get lucky • Night photographers who want the shot, not the all-nighter • Anyone tired of three apps that never agree PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-up. Your sighting log and photos stay on your device, and Borealis uses your location only to work out your local forecast and alerts. AURORA PRO Aurora Pro unlocks alerts, the full map, the sighting log and the extended forecast. It's available as a weekly or annual subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. • Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • Your Apple ID is charged on confirmation and at each renewal • Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Stop refreshing five tabs and hoping. Let Borealis watch the sky for you — and tap you on the shoulder the night it's finally worth heading out. Download Aurora Forecast: Borealis and never sleep through the lights again.

Your clearest read on the northern lights. Everything that affects your chances of seeing the northern lights in one clear read, plus a community that lives and breathes the aurora. Yourora helps you decide if the northern lights are worth going out for tonight, and what lies ahead. Built around northern European data, Yourora combines local measurements, forecasts, weather, darkness and real-world observations to give you a clear view of what is happening now and what could happen later. Yourora is a paid membership, there is no free tier. Membership unlocks the full app, from real-time guidance to community observations and alerts. GO OUT, WAIT OR STAY IN Yourora answers four simple questions: • Is aurora activity happening now? • Could conditions improve later? • Is the sky clear? • Is it dark enough? Measured conditions and forecasts are kept separate, so you always know what is happening now and what is still predicted. When the outlook is uncertain, Yourora says so. All of it comes together in one clear recommendation: go out, wait or stay in. WHERE TO GO TONIGHT Find nearby places where aurora activity, darkness and weather are expected to line up tonight, even before it gets dark. SIMPLE OR ADVANCED Simple mode gives you the call and the reason behind it. Advanced mode lets you explore the underlying data, including solar wind, geomagnetic activity, magnetometers, solar imagery and forecast models. THE FEED See what people nearby are actually seeing, as it happens. Post an observation, attach a photo, and read the feed of what everyone else is seeing tonight. Open any observation and talk it over in the comments. A photo taken twenty minutes ago nearby often tells you more than any index. THE COMMUNITY Yourora brings observations, talks, hubs and groups, watchers and places together in one community. Follow what matters to you, take part in conversations and build your own history of nights, people and places. ALERTS YOU CONTROL Choose what is worth being notified about, from tonight's outlook and geomagnetic activity to substorms, CME arrivals and solar flares. Set quiet hours and the less urgent alerts still arrive, silently, instead of waking you. MORE THAN THE AURORA Yourora also helps you discover meteor showers, the Milky Way, solar and lunar eclipses, supermoons, moonrise and twilight. The map carries a light-pollution layer, so you can find darker sky within reach. BUILT FOR NIGHTS OUTSIDE A dark interface keeps aurora conditions, cloud cover and night-sky information easy to read when you are standing outside in it. Yourora comes from Norrsken Sverige, which has spent more than a decade bringing together people who share a passion for the northern lights. Know when to go out, when to wait, and what else is worth looking up for. Terms: https://yourora.io/legal/terms Privacy: https://yourora.io/legal/privacy