Apps for Space Weather Forecast

Phone and tablet apps

We can separate apps into two groups plus some separate ones. This group is for the forecast of Space weather/Aurora predictions. The other group is for the Earths weather forecast. The app for light pollution will be explained seperately. See the menu 'Apps'.
First of all: explore the other apps and websites yourself. My description here is based on what I think suits me best but that is just me.




The first five are about space weather and one of them immediately stands out: SpaceWeatherLive. It probably opens in Dutch but on a computer the language selector is positioned in the top right corner, on a phone it is built in the menu. The sheer beauty of this site is twofold: that it is available in 21(!) languages, examples are Dutch, English and Finnish! and the second thing is that the graphs take the time in account between measuring the CME and its arrival so you can prepare for wht may be expected!
This app is available for both iOS and Android and as a website. It is by far the most impressive in both extensive data and archives as in depth of explanation. You can support them by getting rid of the ads for only €10,49 per year and you can support them by donations extra or instead.
The other four apps I use occasionally as a 2nd opinion and for their alarm functions. AuroraWatchUK is quite fast with their alarms which are often based on NOAA data which is quite reliable. The other apps I will leave for what they are and won't be a subject in this article.

SpaceWeatherLive is a very large website and is also available on a normal browser on the computer by the URL www.spaceweatherlive.com which instantly redirects to www.poollicht.be.
SpaceWeatherLive has been doing this for 20 years and provides very much in-depth, and I mean DEEP in-depth, information in the working of the solar wind via a menu as well as via the informative text at the many graphs. The charming thing is that they do so in a way that both beginners and geeks get what they are looking for. This is the main reason that my aurora section is quite compact. It would make no sense to copy their information because it would come down to plagiarism in the first place and a real shitload of work in the second place. And an obligation to keep track of their advances and copying them as well. For the more practical interpretation of all this data go to the menu item 'In Depth' -> 'Spaceweather'.

Other important websites on space weather and auroral activity

Finnish Meteorological Institute
NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Stackplots
SoftServeNews
AuroraWatchUK
spaceweatherarchive.com
Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks.