Northern lights!

[Kobe]

From my top bunk in Torres del Rio last night I looked out the window to see the Northern lights! My husband says they are predicted for the next week or so. He hasn’t seen them in Michigan yet. Imagine coming to Spain to see the Northern lights. Magical.

 

[Bill's_Walking]

Jealous!

 

[Arctic_Alex]

I live in the far North and Aurora is dancing like crazy these days. So it make sense you get some spilling over to Spain

 

[pjacobi]

Aurora Forecast:

Aurora Forecast | Geophysical Institute

Forecasts of auroral activity, updated daily.

www.gi.alaska.edu

-Paul

 

[Sue127]

Aurora Forecast:

Aurora Forecast | Geophysical Institute

Forecasts of auroral activity, updated daily.

www.gi.alaska.edu

-Paul

Interesting, thank you

 

[pasiño a pasiño]

really??? so far south is unusual.

 

[Peregrina 2013]

Awesome that you got to see them!! No photos???? Bummer! To think that I live inMN and have traveled north to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area many times and never have been fortunate to see them! Now I'm planning on going to Iceland next month in hopes of having better luck

 

[dbier]

:::chuckle::: I'm so jealous...but 2 points ;
1. There have been several "solar flares" (coronal mass ejections) over the past few weeks. When they tickle the Earth's magnetic fields, bingo, aurora.
2. Because I noticed the length of the summer days last year, I looked.
Latitude of Lugo....43N and change
Latitude of Santiago...42.87N

Latitude of Washington DC...38.9N
Latitude of NYC...40.71N

"South" is a bit relative ...

 

[SeaHorse]

I'm so jealous now. I live much farther North in Europe and have never seen them although they are known to dance around where I live too.

 

[Tassie Kaz]

Awesome that you got to see them!! No photos???? Bummer! To think that I live inMN and have traveled north to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area many times and never have been fortunate to see them! Now I'm planning on going to Iceland next month in hopes of having better luck

What a treat @Kobe, & you didn't even have to get up! Thanks for sharing that with us.
I hope your plan works out @Peregrina 2013. I've tried Iceland, Arctic Canada & Alaska with nil success.
I did however see them while onboard Hurtigruten in northern Norway which I'm forever thankful for.

I'm lucky enough to have 'bookends' having also seen the Aurora Australis or Southern Lights (no, not the ship for any Aussie readers!) in Antarctica.
They can be viewed occasionally here in Tassie & even southern parts of the mainland if conditions are right.

 

[mark connolly]

As dbier says it's all relative. Here is an article from a couple of weeks ago stating that the Aurora Borealis could possibly viewed as far south in the state of Maryland.

Northern lights potentially visible as far south as Maryland

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foxbaltimore.com

Also:

Aurora - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

N.B. @Kobe: I am jealous too.

Mark

 

[ginniek]

The one time I saw them was in Canada, but not in the far north where I would have expected to see them. I was driving back from a business meeting on a major highway, came around a curve and was so surprised to see them that I almost drove off the road.

 

[Arctic_Alex]

As dbier says it's all relative. Here is an article from a couple of weeks ago stating that the Aurora Borealis could possibly viewed as far south in the state of Maryland.

And Maryland is in fact South of Northern Spain ...

As said, where I live at the Arctic Circle, Aurora was very strong in recent days. This is a simple phone shot taken last weekend over our cabin:

 

[Kobe]

Photos don’t do justice. The lights shimmer and fade in and out. See that bright spot? There was no moon visible at the time!

 

[Kobe]

Awesome that you got to see them!! No photos???? Bummer! To think that I live inMN and have traveled north to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area many times and never have been fortunate to see them! Now I'm planning on going to Iceland next month in hopes of having better luck

Sorry to post photos just now. Still getting my bearings on the Camino.

 

[Kobe]

Awesome that you got to see them!! No photos???? Bummer! To think that I live inMN and have traveled north to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area many times and never have been fortunate to see them! Now I'm planning on going to Iceland next month in hopes of having better luck

You will have good luck in Iceland. You may have to set your alarm for the middle of the night, however!

What a treat @Kobe, & you didn't even have to get up! Thanks for sharing that with us.
I hope your plan works out @Peregrina 2013. I've tried Iceland, Arctic Canada & Alaska with nil success.
I did however see them while onboard Hurtigruten in northern Norway which I'm forever thankful for.

I'm lucky enough to have 'bookends' having also seen the Aurora Australis or Southern Lights (no, not the ship for any Aussie readers!) in Antarctica.
They can be viewed occasionally here in Tassie & even southern parts of the mainland if conditions are right.

Haha! I was texting my husband at the time wingeing about being 65yo and being in the nosebleed bunk. Once I looked out the window I realized that it all was worth it!

 

[Peregrina 2013]

You will have good luck in Iceland. You may have to set your alarm for the middle of the night, however!

Haha! I was texting my husband at the time wingeing about being 65yo and being in the nosebleed bunk. Once I looked out the window I realized that it all was worth it!

Thank you Kobe! I've been waiting for years to do this, and whenever we went up north - here in MN, I always made it a point to get up in the middle of the night and walk outside to see if I'd ever be so lucky, but I was rewarded mostly with a beautiful starry night So excited about Iceland! I'll post pictures if we are fortunate to see them!

 

[Peregrina 2013]

What a treat @Kobe, & you didn't even have to get up! Thanks for sharing that with us.
I hope your plan works out @Peregrina 2013. I've tried Iceland, Arctic Canada & Alaska with nil success.
I did however see them while onboard Hurtigruten in northern Norway which I'm forever thankful for.

I'm lucky enough to have 'bookends' having also seen the Aurora Australis or Southern Lights (no, not the ship for any Aussie readers!) in Antarctica.
They can be viewed occasionally here in Tassie & even southern parts of the mainland if conditions are right.

Well, hopefully next month I'll fulfill that lifetime dream! But if Iceland doesn't work I might have to go to Hurtigruten;-) I will hunt them down for the rest of my life until I see them
Lucky you to have seen both the Borealis and the Australis! We were in Patagonia in 2014 and 2017 and went to Ushuaia - so close to Antarctica, and saw and learned so much, but no southern lights

 

[Mananath]

What a treat @Kobe, & you didn't even have to get up! Thanks for sharing that with us.
I hope your plan works out @Peregrina 2013. I've tried Iceland, Arctic Canada & Alaska with nil success.
I did however see them while onboard Hurtigruten in northern Norway which I'm forever thankful for.

I'm lucky enough to have 'bookends' having also seen the Aurora Australis or Southern Lights (no, not the ship for any Aussie readers!) in Antarctica.
They can be viewed occasionally here in Tassie & even southern parts of the mainland if conditions are right.

What station were you at? I have seen them a bunch at McMurdo over the years.

 

[Tassie Kaz]

What station were you at? I have seen them a bunch at McMurdo over the years.

I can imagine the stories you could tell!
I wasn't stationed..unfortunately. I was on a Russian icebreaker (working vessel, not a cruise ship) in the Ross Sea back in 1998. I did visit US McMurdo, NZ Scott Base & Italy's Terra Nova Bay along with a few others.
I consider myself lucky seeing the Aurora as it was high summer with 24 hours of daylight.

 

[OZAJ]

What a treat @Kobe, & you didn't even have to get up! Thanks for sharing that with us.
I hope your plan works out @Peregrina 2013. I've tried Iceland, Arctic Canada & Alaska with nil success.
I did however see them while onboard Hurtigruten in northern Norway which I'm forever thankful for.

I'm lucky enough to have 'bookends' having also seen the Aurora Australis or Southern Lights (no, not the ship for any Aussie readers!) in Antarctica.
They can be viewed occasionally here in Tassie & even southern parts of the mainland if conditions are right.

I saw the Aurora Australis from the back yard of the house I was renting in Old Road, Franklin, Tasmania. Can't remember the year exactly, but it would have been between August 2004 and March 2006.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I live in northern Illinois and when we first moved in our new home outside the city (gosh, has it been 18 years aleady?) we were lounging on our deck marveling at the stars. Lo and behold the Northern lights appeared; dancing and shimmering for about 15+ minutes. It was so awesome, but I've never seen them since.
I'm enjoying reading this thread of a different kind.

P.S. Shooting stars are always a treat, too, and a few weeks ago I saw Starlink march by for nearly a minute exactly like this photo. (Not my pic.) It was amazing!