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Northern lights are such an extremely rare thing to see in the lower mainland. I'm kicking myself for going to bed a lot earlier than usual last night, and wouldn't you know it while I was sleeping the lights lit up a display across the province. This is some of what I missed, see a few of the pictures other people took in different places:
I used to watch the northern lights from our front porch when I lived in Calgary. In the later evenings in summer, I'd head out for a smoke of my pipe, and would sometimes be rewarded with the northern lights performing. A nice, quiet, peaceful evening with a good tobacco and a display of the aurorae. Amazing!
They can be seen at lower latitudes, and I've actually seen them when I lived in southern Ontario, on two occasions. The most memorable was when I was in a farmer's field in a rural area, but they weren't as brilliant as when I lived in Calgary. Which would not be as brilliant as they would be if I was in Yellowknife.
Zoisite, Mightyqueen, I hope that you get to see them for real someday. They really are quite something to see, working their magic in front of your eyes.
Nice! I always wondered how the Lights looked like. Once some years ago, folks as far down at least as the 42nd parallel were able to see them but only if you were in a wooded or rural area away from much artificial light. There were too many bright artificial lights here in the City to make that happen .
They were also seen here. I've seen them many times and they're always awe-inspiring. But now there's light pollution to the north of us and I have to drive away from it in order to see them.
Apparently (according to news) we're supposed to be getting a lot more solar activity causing auroras in the weeks ahead.
Look what I found. It's the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center's short-term forecasts and maps of the locations and intensities of the auroras for both the northern and southern hemispheres:
Maybe we will all get a chance to see more by keeping track of the forecasts.
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You can see the purple and rose colours along with the green in several of those pix.
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