The Northern Lights

[SquareDaff]

Colin - thankyou for that. Do you think I should mention this to my sister-in-law, who has just spent a very expensive week in Finland north of the Arctic Circle hoping to see the Northern Lights, and didn't.......or should I just stay schtumm?

She could have stayed in Scarborough and seen them for a lot less on Sunday evening - although I think the photo shown on Look North was actually from the Primrose valley / Blue Dolphin area!

 

[ColinJ]

Stuffed for tonight - thick cloud / fog forecast here! Oh well, next time I'm in Scotland perhaps ...

 

[annedonnelly]

I'll be up in Shetland in July/August (can't wait), Northern Lights can be seen quite frequently there.

The clue's in your avatar ;-)

 

[MontyVeda]

looks like thick cloud here too... might have a ride out to Darksville later on tho

 

[pubrunner]

The clue's in your avatar ;-)

Indeed it is !

 

[biggs682]

must be magic to see them

 

[Davidc]

But for the cloud they'd supposedly be visible tonight (away from light pollution) around London.

Back in the 1980s, during a very severe solar storm, I saw them from Devils Dyke, near Brighton. Not as huge a display that far south as has been seen 'up north' this time, but still an incredible sight.

 

[fossyant]

No chance here - drizzle and foggy. Anyone's garmin gone haywire

 

[Svendo]

Fog here at the moment! So no chance without gaining height, and then there could be cloud cover.

 

[growingvegetables]

must be magic to see them

Aye - once seen, never forgotten.

Driving through Aberdeenshire nearly 40 years ago; the land all covered in snow ........ and somebody/thing flipped a switch, and the sky came alive. Beautiful.

 

[srw]

But for the cloud they'd supposedly be visible tonight (away from light pollution) around London.

I was above the cloud (thick, low) and away from light pollution, and looking North, near London at about the time you posted this. I did look hard, but couldn't see anything bar a very very vague glow, which could frankly have been anything.

 

[Fnaar]

Northern Lights? More like Northern Sh!tes.... couldn't see owt. Mind you, it might have helped if I'd gone outside.

 

[Maz]

Will Blackpool Illuminations do?