A clear sky is welcome news, as the best meteor shower of the year, the Geminids, peaks tonight. You won’t even have to stay up extraordinarily late for these beauties: the ‘shooting stars’ will be visible from around 11 p.m., with as many as 120 streaking through the sky per hour. If you can’t weather the cold, watch NASA’s radar capturing the fireballs all night.

Last week, we told you to keep an eye out for the Perseid meteor shower. Tonight and tomorrow will be the best nights for this year’s show, as up to 50-80 meteors an hour will reach Earth and burn up into fireballs in the atmosphere. You may see them as early as dusk — but for the real show, stay up late and watch until the early morning on both nights.

Since many of you will already be out tonight at Fort Reno or Screen on the Green, go ahead and tilt your head upwards to catch an even more spectacular show. The Perseid meteor shower has actually been appearing for a couple weeks already, as debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle burns up as it enters Earth’s atmosphere, but tonight is special as it reaches its annual peak. The best part about meteor showers is that…