Meteor Shower over North America a Dud (Camelopadalids)

NDTV.com ^ | 24MAY2014 | Staff Writer

[FlingWingFlyer]

I fell for this and stayed up late last night and into the early morning. Didn’t see ONE meteor which is unusual for Arizona. LOL! These “scientists” need to stick to telling us about how bad “global warming” is going to be.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I was watching the video right up until the starting time.

I fell asleep about 30 minutes into the max, without seeing even one shooting star.

Granted that was via the internet view, but what a less than exciting event.

[Ken522]

Camelopardalids meteors

I dunno, but for some reason "cameltoe" comes to mind ...

[Star Traveler]

I was going to look, but it was too cloudy here.

[BulletBobCo]

I am glad that the skies were overcast in the Denver area. Every time they hype the biggest and best-est ever it’s always a bust.

[Beowulf9]

My husband and I, (Phx, AZ) went out at about 10:20pm, they said we’d be able to see it about 10:30. I figure shooting stars show up fashionably early.

They touted this event in the news several times as going to be big big big...

Stayed out there on our lawn chairs till about midnight, drank champagne. That was the only event of the eve.

Not ONE sighting.

[molson209]

Cloud Out ,here

[TrueKnightGalahad]

The only thing I got out of watching the sky last night is a sore neck.

[Zuse]

I sat out at 3AM for over an hour. Nice clear skies.
Saw 3.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Just like the way they hype movies!

[RckyRaCoCo]

Was up until a little after 4AM...other than seeing the International Space Station around 3:30...it was lame.

Best ever display was(years ago)viewing the Perseid meteor shower out in the Mojave desert.

Last night was like waiting for The Great Pumpkin : )

[Jack Hydrazine]

Maybe global warming scared the meteors away? LOL!

[Jack Hydrazine]

My favorites are the Perseids and the Leonids.

[lee martell]

That’s quite a leap of association, from the stratosphere to the bedroom!

[FlingWingFlyer]

It was kind of like this.

[hoagy62]

Figured as much. I was going to try to stay up, but decided on bed instead. Looks like I made the right choice.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

I counted about 10/hour from 1-3am, and went to sleep.

Listening to the meteor radar this morning about 1 hour after sunrise there were hundreds of pings per hour till about 11am.

So, the forecast was early. Might be worth a look tonight from sunset on.

[FlingWingFlyer]

LOL!

[Kirkwood]

To be fair, it was reporters who ginned up the story, which is typical. All of the astronomy sites I looked at said it was very questionable.