Wait for it.....(epic northern lights)

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[True Blue American]

1. I actually first saw them when I was

6 or 7. Scared my normally calm Mother to death. She thought it was the end of the world!

[Sherman A1]

2. Cool 😎

Thanks for posting.

[pansypoo53219]

3. i was the oldest grandkid, but also a night owl + light sleeper. once up north when all 4 of us

kids were at the family cottage, grandpa got me up to go down to the lake. white northern lights were dancing across the WHOLE sky. i have seen lesser white. but now explore live cams has a manitoba northern lights cam. had even better lights earlier. you can rewind. no red yet.

[LeftInTX]

6. My brother had a similar experience

Cottage at the lake...45 degrees N, no artificial light for miles. He goes out the the garage to get something. When he's heading back to the house, boom. The sky is dancing and he's blown away.

Further south in humid, hazy Wisconsin, with industry and light pollution, my dad would point to the sky and say, "Those are the northern lights". (He was a meteorologist) To me they looked alot like clouds, except they had a vertical orientation. (Kinda like sheets)
We saw them frequently, but they were never impressive. If my dad hadn't told me, I would have never noticed them.

I live in San Antonio and humidity kills any summer celestial viewing. (Just the humidity itself before the early morning clouds set in ruins everything) When it cools, we can see things again. Humidity completely ruined the comet this summer.

[pansypoo53219]

15. on my 1st transatlantic flight i looked, but didn't see anything.

2nd time i turned off the lights + i saw northen lights. not great, did tell the african man next to me. tho he did not care.

[Mendocino]

4. In Sept 82

Northern Ontario. That was the best aurora I ever saw at 51.202N, -86.901W. The wolves were howling.

[electric_blue68]

5. Thanks. Both my parents saw them...

My dad back in the mid 60's when he was visiting Seattle as part of his job.

My mom has the more unusual story.
Early 1930's hot summer night in NYC. She and her siblings were up on the roof to escape the heat.
Suddenly soft, yet bright patches of green, and red lights start pulsing in the sky.
Not too long they get the full on "curtains" hanging, and moving above them!

While quite true NYC was not as highly lit as today - it had to be one of the highest ratings on the Aurora scale for it to have been seen that far south!

I have an on line friend from Finland who sends me their stuff, AND his own photos! Swoon!

[LeftInTX]

7. Wow!!

The humidity does a number on celestial viewing down here. I know NYC is humid, but I guess they aren't as humid as down here. (At least at night) The humidity/light pollution always botched the northern lights in Neenah, Wisconsin.

[electric_blue68]

8. Hmmm... Never thought about humidity messing up...

Auroras!

Oh, NYC is pretty infamous for it's Hazy, Hot & Humid Summer bouts!
Luckily we get some fine 80°-82° clear deep blue sky dry summer days to counter balance them.

I love Google Maps! I see yeah, you're pretty north!
From my occasional looks at the Aurora Forecasting site (from Alaska - Geophysical Institute/ Univ of Alaska) I'm guessing a #4 or #5 rating would hit your area .

Ok looked it up. #5 on 11-20 & 11-22 in northern Wisc but the forecast map of USA/Canada is so tiny hard to tell whether it covers your area.
Looks like a #6, definitely a #7 would cover your area.

[LeftInTX]

9. I'm in South Texas and have not lived in Neenah for over 40 years.

The summers here are hazy at night. (Every summer morning is cloudy)

I can never see the Scorpius constellation due to the haze. It sits high in the summer sky, but I cannot see it.

[electric_blue68]

10. Oh, sorry. Duh I did notice your name...

... thot it "reversed" a Texan now living in Wisconsin.

[electric_blue68]

11. Don't think I know the Scorpious Constellation ...

... when I was younger I used to love seeing esp in the winter Orion hanging south east in the sky.

What was really special was the Pliedies would just clear the edge of the apartment building's top around midnight or so, but I didn't have a pair of binoculars to get a bit closer look.

When I traveled across the USA I loved seeing the Big Dipper and the "W" hanging in the sky. Good times.

[LeftInTX]

12. Scorpio...It's more visible from the Southern Hemisphere

It's appearance in the Northern Hemisphere is brief and limited to the lower 40 degrees. (9 PM in July is considered the best time in the US) South Texas would be OK for viewing, but we have all this haze, plus I live on the north side of San Antonio. I guess it can be viewed out in the country. Scorpius rises and sets pretty quickly even where I live, so the time frame isn't good. Plus you still have twilight competing in the summer. I can usually see the top four stars, but the tail is usually too faded for me.

Oh well, they really can't see the Big Dipper in the Southern Hemisphere.

[electric_blue68]

13. Oh, wow Thx for pic.

While it makes perfect sense as to why one might not see certain of the Constellations from either the Northern, or Southern Hemispheres - it feels sad, at least to me.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. The best northern lights display I ever saw

was from a light airplane I was flying somewhere over Wisconsin late at night, about 25 years ago. They were like a glowing, wavy bright green curtain, had to describe them to an air traffic controller who was sitting in a windowless room somewhere. I also saw them once from my back yard in Minneapolis, which was unusual because most of the time the city lights make them very difficult to see.