srakatablet.blogg.se - Where to see the northern lights

"And I say, 'Well, where were you?' And they say, 'Downtown Denver.' Ah, well, there's this thing called light pollution." "I've had people say, 'I went looking for (the aurora), and I didn't see anything!'" Murtagh told me. If you live in a city - Murtagh was talking to me from Boulder, Colorado, while I'm in Seattle - you're already at a disadvantage. "You might be out hunting it for hours on end, and then, the perfect storm of events comes along, and you finally see it." City disadvantage "(Fishing) is like (looking for) an aurora," Murtagh told me. Murtagh compared it to a conversation he recently had with someone who fishes for marlin, saying he asked them how many hours they spent out on the water hoping for their big catch, versus how many times they really succeed.

NASA Astronaut Snaps Glorious Green Aurora Views From Spaceīill Murtagh, program coordinator at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, is well aware that many of us would-be aurora spotters get bummed out, over and over.

Oh NOAA, why do you keep breaking our hearts with hope we'll see an aurora?īut so often, as I wrote about in 2020 when there were high hopes for aurora sightings, the forecast changes, the Northern Lights get shy and people are disappointed. While the aurora lights are usually seen only in very northern locations, there's some hope this storm could push them further south, and even states such as Oregon or Pennsylvania might get a glimpse. That's good but not great for aurora spotting - G5 is the highest. A geomagnetic storm is expected to peak Thursday at what's called a G3 level. The latest news from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration looks so positive.

People who've been raised on photographs of spectacular views such as these begin dreaming, maybe set an alarm to head outside late at night, maybe drive outside of their city limits to try and avoid light pollution. You know the drill: Buzzy articles claim that the Northern Lights, the dazzling phenomenon known scientifically as the aurora borealis, might be able to be seen in regions that don't normally get to see them.