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Aurora Borealis

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The Northern Lights recently paid a visit to the Okanagan Valley. I was surprised to see such bright and colourful lights this far south but the sun is coming to the end of an 11-year cycle where huge solar storms are bombarding the Earth with extreme amounts of energy that is manifesting as unusually strong, brilliant and swirling Northern Lights.

My last picture of the Aurora was taken in the Northwest Territories where they are frequently and stunningly visible, but these pink lights were a lovely southern gift.

Who needs fireworks when we have these?

Happy Wednesday.

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    1. They sure have been spectacular, haven’t they? I used to see them a lot when I lived in NWT but hadn’t ever seen the pink hues. It was wonderful to see them this far south and through the mountains! Cheers.

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  15. And so much of it is luck in clear skies – I was hoping to see them driving east across the northern US, and other people did, but there was too much cloud cover where I was. I have seen spectacular displays in northern New England, though – yellow, green, pink – and it lasted for a couple of hours, to where I gave up and went to bed!

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    1. Yes, the aurora shows can last for hours. It’s too bad that you didn’t get some cooperation from the weather as the window on the more southerly shows is going to close in the next few months, and we won’t get the very colourful ones that have been visible lately. When I was living in the north I saw the very intensely green ones, but not the pink or yellow ones.

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