Northern lights tonight in Vermont

Vermont sits at about 54° magnetic latitude, so the aurora reaches it from roughly Kp 6.1 — a few nights a year, on G2–G3 storms. The card below reads NOAA's oval, tonight's dark hours, the cloud and the Moon for Lake Willoughby right now.

The Northeast Kingdom is the darkest corner of New England south of Maine's woods, at 54° magnetic latitude — Kp 5.5 for an arc on the horizon, Kp 6 for a display. Lake Willoughby's fjord-like cliffs frame a north-facing view over water; Island Pond and the border towns have less sky glow than anywhere else in the state. Lake Champlain's north end at Alburgh gives the open water horizon with Montreal's dome 70 km beyond it — low enough to sit under the arc on a good night, bright enough to wash out a faint one. Burlington needs Kp 6.