Solar Flare

[Jerry Adams]

There was a large solar flare

Maybe we’ll be able to see Northern Lights tonight and tomorrow night

Washington state?  Northern Oregon???

[David Thomas]

Thanks for the heads up. I’ll be flying SEA-ANC the night of the 16th. Not a lot of dark hours this time of year, but some over BC. I always sit on the east side of the plane for the mountain views and possibility of seeing the aurora.

[Jerry Adams]

That’s cheating : )

You should definitely see it up there

I was in Jasper National Park in BC once and saw Aurora.  You probably see it routinely.

[MJ H]

The northern lights can go very far south, if the conditions are right. I’ve only seen them once and that was in Nebraska. It was northern Nebraska, but I was still very surprised to see them.

[jscott]

I saw them once, and only once, late fall from out of the orchards around Dryden, Wa. (near Wenatchee). We didn’t know what they were at first. that’s fairly far south.

[Jerry Adams]

Yeah, same here, I didn’t know what it was at first.  Then, “hat must be the Northern Lights!”.  it was more of an overall white light than streaks of color.

[jscott]

Yep, we saw a moving ‘finger’ of mostly white light.

[David Thomas]

The local etiquette in Alaska is to call your friends when they’re really good and tell them to stick their head outside.  One time, there was a red stripe across the whole sky from east to west, bright enough that the snow on the ground looked pink.  Word went around REALLY quickly that night.

Twice – once in southern YT on the Alaskan Highway and once east to Tok on the Alcan – I’ve seen the entire sky green.  Some of the curtains-in-the-wind type and others that looked like (green) iron fillings on paper over a magnet.  We were both hanging our heads out the window and realized it would be safer to just stop the truck and stare at the sky for a while (it’s not like there a lot of traffic at 1 am in January).

[Eric Blumensaadt]

I must be lucky, I’ve seen the Aurora Borealis in southern Michigan, northern Pennsylvania and Southern Quebec.

 

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