Apex Rotary Parkout of town · outlook for 7:25 p.m.
No.
Cloud rules it out. Cloud cover is forecast at 78%.
Based on typical activity for the season. Check the first live call before you go.
Issued 5 minutes ago, good for 1 hour 5 minutes more.
Next: the morning outlook at about 11:30 a.m., with the overnight weather run.
Hour by hour
Outlook for 7:25 p.m.: No. Latest of 2 since 5:35 a.m.
Later calls appear as they are made.
Chance of seeing it
+60 pts without cloud17%at 7:25 p.m.
Outlook, from typical activity for the season. Live readings only reach an hour ahead.
What decides it
Tonight, cloud rules it out.
Cloud
In the way
Mostly covered
78% cover at 7:25 p.m., the lighter bar
taller bar, more cloud · dashed line, overcast
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Thinnest from about 10 p.m. to 11 p.m., then it thickens again. Watch for breaks in the cloud then.
Sky darkness
Helping
Dark 4 of 5
town glow · deep dark
Milky Way visible overhead. Most aurora will show clearly.
Estimated
Moon
Helping
Down while it is dark
0% lit, waxing.
- Dark
- Twilight
- Moon
Its light takes nothing from the sky tonight.
Darkness
Minor
Dark from 7:13 p.m. to 5:29 a.m.
Sunset 5:23 p.m. Sunrise 7:19 a.m.
- Dark
- Twilight
- Sun
- Dark enough
At 7:25 p.m. the sun is 13° down, just past the line where the sky is dark enough for aurora.
The record
What we called, and what happened
No nights yetSeason starts Oct. 15
Every night so farWhere the numbers come from
Apex Rotary Park, in detail. Issued Saturday 6:05 a.m. Good until Saturday 7:15 a.m. Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Model lnt_score-sha256@16b902fb5962. Cloud: 78% cover, forecast by HRDPS, model run Saturday 2:00 a.m. 4 h 6 min old. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada (licence). Aurora activity: K 2.0, typical for the season, not a live reading. From site-season climatology (GFZ Hp30 archive). CC BY 4.0, see credits. Sun and moon: Sun 13° below the horizon. Moon below the horizon. Sky darkness: Dark, 4 of 5. Estimated from NASA Black Marble VNP46A4, 2025 data, uncalibrated. Horizon: Worked out from terrain, which is what mainly blocks the view here. Trees are not included. Terrain from ArcticDEM and Canada's elevation data, see credits. Where: 63.7248, -68.4464. The forecast is for this spot, not the whole town. Magnetometer: Iqaluit (IQA), Natural Resources Canada. It shows activity that has already arrived, so it is a check for right now, not a forecast, and never part of a call.