Aurora Forecast Alerts - Blika

Should you go outside tonight?

That is the only question an aurora app needs to answer, and almost none of them do. They show you a Kp number and a coloured map of the planet, and leave you to work out what it means for the sky above your head.

Blika gives you one answer, and tells you exactly what it rests on.

GO NOW · KEEP AN EYE OUT · NOT TONIGHT

Three verdicts, never a score out of 100. A number invites you to argue with it. A verdict tells you which factor is the binding one — and that is the thing that actually changes your evening.

IT KNOWS WHAT TIME IT IS

Open it at two in the afternoon and Blika does not pretend it is night. The sky behind the answer is the one you are under — daylight, dusk, twilight, dark — and the answer has two halves: Now, the live reading, and Tonight, the forecast for the coming night.

THE THREE THINGS THAT DECIDE IT

Aurora activity. Blika reads NOAA's OVATION model at your grid square, not a national average. A storm over Iceland is not a storm over you.

Cloud cover. The factor most aurora apps leave out entirely, and the one that ruins most chases. A 90% aurora probability under thick overcast is a wasted drive at two in the morning, and Blika will say so.

Darkness. The sun has to be far enough below the horizon. In summer, at high latitude, it often simply is not — and an app that alerts you anyway is wasting your attention.

Bright moonlight is flagged too — it washes out a faint display.

ONE PAYMENT. NOT A SUBSCRIPTION.

Most aurora and weather apps bill you every week. Blika asks once.

The verdict and its three reasons are free, forever, with no account and no ads. A single one-time purchase unlocks the dashboard and the Home Screen widget, and that is the only thing Blika will ever charge you for.

BUILD YOUR OWN DASHBOARD

Eight cards. You pick which ones appear and in what order, because the chaser who watches Bz and the photographer who watches the moon should not be handed the same screen.

· Aurora overhead — OVATION probability at your 1° grid square
· Kp index — the number everyone quotes, as context, never as the verdict
· Cloud cover — for the hour in question
· Moon — illumination and phase
· Tonight's window — the stretch when it is both dark enough and clear enough
· Solar wind — speed and Bz from DSCOVR, because a southward Bz is what opens the door
· Darkness