Geminids stand apart from the other meteor showers in that they seem to have been spawned not by a comet, but by 3200 Phaethon, an Earth-crossing asteroid.

The Geminids may be comet debris, for some astronomers consider Phaethon to really be the dead nucleus of a burned-out comet that somehow got trapped into an unusually tight orbit.

The Geminids are predicted to reach peak activity on Dec. 14 at 16:45 GMT (11:45 a.m. ET). That means those places from central Asia eastward across the Pacific Ocean to Alaska are in the best position to catch the very crest of the shower, when the rates conceivably could exceed 120 per hour.

The Geminids begin to appear noticeably more numerous in the hours after 10 p.m. local time, because the shower's radiant is already fairly high in the eastern sky by then.

The best views come around 2 a.m. local time, when their radiant point will be passing very nearly overhead.
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We're supposed to be getting these now here in Australia. I've been going outside now and then but I've only seen a few, mainly faint ones. Did see one big bright one streak across the sky. Was pretty cool. It's almost 1am now, they supposedly started being viewable at about 11pm and should continue through to 3.45am or so.

LUCKY! lol where i am its nothing but clouds for the past 2 months... i kept going out last night to see if maybe just maybe there was a break in clouds NOPE!

Me too nothing but clouds. I hope tonight is better here in Pennsylvania.