Aurora Borealis

Sadly, I'm not seeing anything right now (3:45 AM local time) here in the southern Twin Cities of Minnesota.

 

doh! missed this.

BUT, i did see them 3 times already in PA over the years.
First two times were roughly 20 and 24 years ago with the whole sky lit up.
Third time was roughly 5? years ago and not much but enough for the whole fam to see em.

 

Not even close....

 

Upper Northwest Montana, has been seeing little smatterings to the north for several days of the past couple weeks.
Would likely be more visible, but for the often heavy cloud cover during these seasonal longer evenings
.

 

Closer than me....

 

I didn't even notice the Australis ones on the maps....

Snake Valley is a long way South of us, and that's really on the edge of where they were visible. Still, though, that is an unusually long way North for the Aurora Australis. They're very rarely visible anywhere on the Australian Mainland, but they do pop up in Tasmania occasionally.

 

been cloudy and rain last week and continuing here. My favorite so far this year is the animated gif from Healy AK Oct 10th . Lots a nice stills as far as the eye can see into Feb too. Thanks for the link up fuzz

 

I didn't call out @hkmb on this one because it's a 6-vs-0.5 dozen thing.

I'm nearly 1100 miles from the green slimy part of the probability blob, while folks who identify as living in Sydney are probably more like 500 miles....or 800 clicks if you live in a developing nation that has to outsource their submarine production.

It's kinda hard to suss out due to the vagaries of cartography....and our living on a flat earth.....sorta.
It's technically "a slightly irregular oblated spheroid" squished down a little bit on the top and bulging out a tiny bit in the waist - as many of us are.

Besides....if you're outside the blob.....you're outside the blob.

 

On the long, long list of things that are embarrassing about Australia, this is currently very near the top, just below our environment policies and just above Mel Gibson.

 

There were some great shots from Tasmania this week.

 

I can't get into this one... Am I doing it wrong?

 

I couldn't get the video to play just by clicking on the link. unless it just took way longer to load than I was willing to wait.

alternative that worked for me go to
cnn.com
click on the 3 bars in the upper right corner
that opens a black and white menu page - at the bottom right of the menu page is the
Weather option and the sub option Video
clicking video took me to a page where I could clink click a link to the video and it played.
be patient, it takes a while to load, at least it did for me this morning.

First clear night locally and I was out at 6am 1/2 mile out on Lake Ontario, All I could see were the lights of Toronto and maybe Mississauga reflecting off what looked like thick clouds to the northwest of my location.
the sunrise an hour later was pretty - for another sunrise, at least is was visible today.

 

Im not able to get into the video either but I was able to just google it and see it. Thanks!