I have looked this morning and saw a couple, short and bright.
This is normal for Orionids.
For those not familiar with the night sky, Orion (The Hunter) is probably the most recognizable and easiest to find constellation in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. It is from the area of Orion, that most of the meteors of this shower emanate, but not always all of them. Of course, the meteors aren't really coming from Orion..it's just a convenient place in the sky to see them, as they skim our atmosphere, with Orion a distant backdrop many light years behind where we see the meteors.
Orion is instantly recognized because of the 3 bright stars perfectly aligned in a row. Orion's belt.
Orion itself is a very large constellation that stretches across your full field of vision and is usually portrayed as a hunter with a bow in
his left arm/hand or as a hunter with a club over
his right shoulder and an animal (to be clubbed to death) at the end of
his left arm.
Walk outside. Right now ('now' being 0530 when I started typing this) , turn & face south. Tilt your head back and Orion will be almost straight overhead, tho always a little to the southwest of directly overhead.
Orion rises in the East/Southeast, and marches across the sky to the West/slightly northwest. The bright star Betelgeuse makes up the edge of
his right shoulder. Most outdoorsmen learn early in life to know where the 7 sisters are (Pleiades) and know they 'point' East, and they will be to your right, and just to the West of Orion.
Here is Orion depicted as a bow hunter. It is not to scale and this illustration is typical in that it omits other constellations that are in the same view. (Taurus (The Bull) is a constellation that lies between Orion and Pleiades) Orion and Pleiades will be somewhat farther apart than what this picture indicates.
Betelgeuse is bright enough, that a few minutes ago, as the sun was already turning the Eastern horizon red, Betelgeuse was still visible overhead, and is usually one of the last stars visible before sunrise.
This meteor shower peaks tonight (thursday night) into friday morning with the best viewing after midnight.
