Perseid Meteor Shower Strongest Tonight

The annual Perseid meteor shower, which is composed of debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet that crosses the Earth's orbit, is supposed to be at its highest intensity tonight, with predictions of up to 200 sightings of meteors per hour.  If the sky is clear, go outside in the early morning hours, from midnight to about 3, and look in the northeastern part of the sky (I'm writing this from northern Florida, at about 30 degrees latitude).  If you know the constellations, then it should be simple to find the shower's epicenter...that is the point from which the individual meteors mostly appear to be radiating.  The shower, after all, is named for the constellation Perseus, representing the mythological Greek hero who rescued Andromeda (also a nearby constellation) from a dreaded sea monster...

As for me, I have been trying off and on...more off, sad to say...over more than the past fifty years to get a good look at the Perseids...but to little avail.  The fact that the night skies here in Gainesville have been consistently overcast for several days doesn't furnish me much hope that this situation will change for the better.  But maybe you'll be in a better position than me to enjoy this celestial spectacle.  Of course, it will help to be away from city lights as well.  And if you're going to see the Perseids, tonight's the tonight: it won't get any better than this...