<p>Go outside and look up tonight! It is usually a great show.</p>
<p>Rats. Today is the first day with any <em>significant rain</em> in Seattle. What are the chances the two events would coincide?</p>
<p>Since we’ve lived in a more rural area, without lots of bright lights, it’s become a tradition that we try to wake up in the middle of the night to watch. We spread old blankets out on the driveway, bring out pillows, and watch the stars. I am very, very disappointed that DS goes back to HS tomorrow. No getting up in the middle of the night this year because of that, and it seems to be a very clear night unlike last year. We did just stand outside for a few minutes to see if we could see any early meteors. No luck. It probably doesn’t help that I have new neighbors that keep on lots of outside lights. I’m going to try one more time, but then I’ll have to get to sleep. That alarm will be very early tomorrow morning.</p>
<p>It’s rained on this night for the past several years. But tonight it’s clear and cool - wonderful! And I did see 3, even though we have a lot of light pollution here.</p>
<p>Also saw a satellite! Good luck, viewers.</p>
<p>We’re having a tropical storm watch for Felicia. Maybe it’ll clear in time for the meteor shower. So far, there hasn’t been as much rain as predicted. In past meteor showers, we haven’t seen many meteors so maybe we just don’t have sharp eyes & too might light pollution.</p>
<p>It’s cloudy here. ;___;</p>
<p>Fog…thick pea soup fog :(</p>
<p>Try tomorrow night also per our local weatherman, he said they are about one or so per minute. One year we got in the car with our son and drove into the country to avoid city lights (only 5- 10 minutes).</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of this. Is it mainly a west coast event?</p>
<p>^^No, it’s everywhere: </p>
<p>[Strong</a> Meteor Shower Expected Tonight - Yahoo! News](<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090811/sc_space/strongmeteorshowerexpectedtonight]Strong”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090811/sc_space/strongmeteorshowerexpectedtonight)</p>
<p>If you missed last night, you can usually catch some a few days before and after.</p>
<p>Not at all! The entire Earth is moving through the comet debris which causes the Perseids, so it just depends on how clear a night you have in order to see meteors. It *is *more visible in the northern hemisphere, because of the position of the orbit of the comet which left the dust stream.</p>
<p>[Perseids</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids]Perseids”>Perseids - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>edit: crossposted with pageturner</p>
<p>OK, cool! :)</p>
<p>Thanks for letting us know. I was wondering about today’s Google design and that explains it.</p>
<p>DS stayed up until 4am waiting for the clouds to clear…they never did… :(</p>
<p>He is tired…</p>
<p>Although the recommendations are to look to the northeast, I had more luck looking where the sky was darker. In this case (because of neighborhood lights) that was toward the south. I saw several, very clearly, within just a few minutes.</p>
<p>DS and I went out around 12:30 am. Not much happening (I know, I know, we were too early,) and it seemed as if all our neighbors decided to put on their outside lights. I did see one big one, and it was a beaut. DS missed it. I think you can also go out tonight and try to catch more of the shower. Won’t be as many, but still a few up there to see.</p>
<p>It was very cloudy here, but I watched the open patch in the sky for about 20 minutes and saw just one – to the west.</p>
<p>It rained like heck due to Felicia all night here. May try tomorrow. Have tried in prior years–it seems to be catch as catch can.</p>