This post is actually full of crap.
Absolute utter crap.
The full moon is on the night of the 7-8th meaning that there's going to still be a very bright waning moon in the sky... reducing the visible meteors to about 40-50 an hour. HALF of what the Perseids are known to produce in average years and most definitely not the historically epic showers from history. That distinction goes to the 1833 Leonids with an estimated 100,000 an hour and an estimated 240,000 over nine hours. That is not a typo.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonids
Also, the peak is at about 1PM EST, which means viewing in the US will be "OK" on the nights of 11-12 and 12-13.
snopes has commented on this: "The reason the web site that originally made this claim cites zero sources is likely due to the fact that there is a complete lack of factual information to support it."
Absolute utter crap.
The full moon is on the night of the 7-8th meaning that there's going to still be a very bright waning moon in the sky... reducing the visible meteors to about 40-50 an hour. HALF of what the Perseids are known to produce in average years and most definitely not the historically epic showers from history. That distinction goes to the 1833 Leonids with an estimated 100,000 an hour and an estimated 240,000 over nine hours. That is not a typo.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonids
Also, the peak is at about 1PM EST, which means viewing in the US will be "OK" on the nights of 11-12 and 12-13.
Sorry, but I wouldn't even call this post an exagerated overstatament... frankly I'm of the opinion it was made by a lying troll. Why baffles me.
https://www.space.com/37677-perseids-lunar-and-solar-eclipse-august-2017.html
Find a dark sky site and take your squeeze out for a night under the stars.
I'm going to investigate this a bit more, figure out when the best times might be.