![]() ![]() The best places to see the Orionids will be cities east of Interstate 880 from 1 a.m. Weather models Thursday afternoon showed scattered cloud cover across most of the Peninsula starting around 8-9 p.m., according to newsroom meteorologist Gerry Díaz, with partly cloudy skies dominating the North Bay, East Bay and South Bay. With that in mind, the weather forecast for the Bay Area was a bit iffy, at least for maximum viewing. “Under good viewing conditions, a meteor watcher might see between 10 to 20 meteors per hour,” Burress said. and dawn, Burress said, with the most favorable viewing from 3 a.m. Peak activity for the Orionids on Friday will happen between 1 a.m. “When the meteors enter Earth’s atmosphere at extremely high speed, they are incinerated in a flash, which we see as a meteor or ‘shooting star,’” Burress said. ![]()
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