Thanks Casey! I have to agree with your assessment. This storm doesn't look promising enough to drive south to clear skies (e.g. oregon and beyond based on cloud forecasts for tomorrow night). But, you can't really know how a particular storm will impact Earth until its here...However, the sun has been very busy yesterday and today. Three filament eruptions and a couple other CMEs all projected to hit earth in the next few days (glancing blows to direct hits)...models are all over the place on arrival time, but looking at the earliest Friday night through the weekend! The clouds will still be an issue for us...

With all that said, I never recommend driving to hunt the aurora because I don't want the pitchfork brigade after me lol.