No aurora after all.
Unfortunately, the forecast for the Aurora has been updated and conditions no longer look favorable for viewing tonight.
https://twitter.com/NWSSWPC/status/1337092740245454848

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Don’t forget to wear tin foil hats …..
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Thanks for this interesting information and for the website.
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,
HARRY
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“Call a SPADE, a SPADE; and a TRANNY, a TRANNY, or an IT!!!”.
"THAT'S SOME BAD
SHIT
,
HARRY
!".

Thanks for the tip. It sounds like the world may be ending. I guess that would make sense because after all, it is 2020, isn't it?

I live too far North to see the lights, but you're right about seeing them in some parts of the South Island.
In fact there are many dark places in NZ but I'm not close to any of them. Wish I was.

Are you not on occasion able to see the Aurora Australis where you are, NZer? I would think that you have very dark skies, but I suppose it wouldn’t matter much if you resided in a big city.
On edit: Had a look at the lights of the world map. For a small country, it appears that New Zealand is pretty well lit up. The interiors of Australia and Africa look as if they would be an astronomers dream come true. Also didn’t realize that New Zealand is considerably farther from Australia than I had thought (4,163 kilometers, or air travel distance of 2,587 miles).
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INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL IS BANNED due to covid-19 pandemic. Nobody is supposed to be traveling on planes at all.

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's the place to be if a nuclear war ever broke out.
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"THAT'S SOME BAD
SHIT
,
HARRY
!".

Nah, you don't.
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At times like this, I wish I lived in the USA.