Originally Posted by
EXP_Cougar
While looking into B&B accommodations, one of the B&B owners advised me candidly against coming at the end of December. She mentioned that the full moon and weak end of solar wind cycle would make for very poor northern light viewing conditions. Instead she said February would be a much better time to catch a decent light show.
Good catch!
You can see the University of Alaska Fairbanks's aurora forecast site here:
http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/
Tons of good information regarding aurora viewing there.