Darkness is of essense. I remember a great shower I caught several years ago. We live in a town of approx. 7k people with high school, industrial lights etc. I went outside at approx 4 am in town and within 15 minutes saw several, then decided it would be worth the 10 minute drive to a favorite farm field (pre scouted) away from city lights.
What I saw then, I had never witnessed. There were at least on average, one meteor per minute. One 10 second period, I saw three, one of which broke up in the atmosphere. There were many that broke and split into fiery fragments and a couple of fireball types. This lasted until approx 6 am and it started getting light. Didn't have a cell phone then to alert the family, so my they slept through it.
I have gotten up many times and gone back to bed seeing only one or two, but that one night made all the trips worth while.
Meanwhile, the 7 am news (the previous night's 11 pm news hyped the celestial show) reported the shower as a dud as seen from the city. The city lights had almost completely masked the fine show.
Good luck, and pre-scout a place with dark skies if at all possible.
Correction: the 7 am news (the previous night’s 11 pm news hyped the celestial show) reported the shower as a dud and disappointment. This goes to show how accurate the news is on not political issues, too.
About 7 years ago I woke the family at about one and usheredthem into the car and drove halfway to nowhere to see the leonoid and saw twenty a minute
I moved the family to where we watched that one from
still we’ll go up into the very dark sky maybe offshore and WOW