Noctilucent Cloud Season 2024

[Jamie M]

It's May and nearly time for NLCs to reappear once again.

A few helpful links I've collated:

IAP MLS temperature data at 54.1N - https://alomar.andoyaspace.no/rmrlidar/html/auramls/index.html

Mesopause temperature over the UK - https://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/~hcp/meso_ts/

MAARSY Mesosphere radar - https://www.iap-kborn.de/en/research/department-radar-remote-sensing/current-radar-observations/maarsy-mesosphere/

OSWIN Mesophere radar - https://www.iap-kborn.de/en/research/department-radar-remote-sensing/current-radar-observations/oswin-mesosphere/

NLC Camera Map that I made - https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/edit?mid=1qhdX7mj7eciDYjZF61LU9zYDCNwdDzA&usp=sharing

IAP NLC camera network - https://www.iap-kborn.de/en/research/department-optical-soundings-and-sounding-rockets/instruments-and-models/nlc-cameras/overview/

German NLC forum - https://forum.meteoros.de/viewforum.php?f=34

German NLC website with lots of information/links and previous sightings to 1885 - http://www.leuchtende-nachtwolken.info/

German website with information about previous NLC sightings in Rostock, Germany & links - https://3sky.de/

Czech website for monitoring NLCs with previous sightings - http://ukazy.astro.cz/nlc-monitor.php

NLC visibility map, allows you to put in long/lat for possible altitudes of NLCs at certain times of day - http://www.theusner.eu/terra/nlc/nlc_vis.php

Edited May 3 by Jamie M
Welsh MST radar link removed as permanently closed this April 

[Metwatch]

Thank for starting the thread up. Still a few weeks to go until the chance of the first sighting increases, find usually starts to ramp up right as meteorological summer begins. Hoping the summer isn't too cloudy / unsettled, especially from the mid June to early August period giving us more chances to see them.

Also a shame it looks like we won't have @mushymanrob with us this year unless he comes back which would be nice.

Edited May 3 by Metwatch

[Lt. Dan]

Been waiting for this thread to reappear. I hope we have a better season than last year, as that was quite disappointing overall. I am quite looking forward to those 3am mornings with a glorious overhead display  

[LeeKay/]

All it needs is Sir @Arnie Pie His contributions were and have been brilliant over the times this hemisphire

[Rush2019]

Brilliant.  @Jamie M  Thanks for starting the 2024 thread.  Not long now until I'm in the bedroom window like a meerkat scouring the northern skies.  2023 was dire, too many nights clouded out.

[Jamie M]

https://www-iap--kborn-de.translate.goog/fileadmin/user_upload/MAIN-abteilung/radar/Radars/OswinVHF/Plots/OSWIN_Mesosphere_4hour.png

The first echoes from the OSWIN radar at Kühlungsborn suggests that NLC development is underway

[Jamie M]

Possibly the first NLCs of the season at 52N, 14.6E at Bomsdorf in Germany at 01:13 UTC this morning.

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