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Aurora Boreallis!

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Old 10-24-2011, 10:36 PM   #1
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Aurora Boreallis!
So tonight a good night for aurora activity in my area! My wife has never seen the northern lights, so I figure great she can finally see them tonight..WRONG! we have cloud cover here ( I hope it moves )! I really want her to see them as I have watched them many times and have told her stories about them. Its really quite something to see!
How many of you have witnessed the aurora?
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Many times when I lived in NY.
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Old 10-24-2011, 11:13 PM   #3
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Sorry you have cloud cover. I lived for most of a year in North Dakota and saw the aurora many times. Saw it once or twice in Montana and Canada on vacation too. A very awesome sight when you get a chance to enjoy it!
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Old 10-26-2011, 02:47 PM   #4
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Seen the auroras many times, but we've had cloud cover up here in our end of the UP as well. Best I've seen was about 20-25 years ago while on a fishing trip in Northern Ontario, up around the Jellicoe/Geraldton area. Beautiful, eerie, awe-inspiring. The absolute quiet while the Lights dance around... something you never forget. Easy to understand why the native peoples saw supernatural causes.
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Old 10-26-2011, 03:43 PM   #5
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A long trip north to see the auroras is definitely on my bucket list.
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Never seen them. We were in Alaska last year but it was overcast most of the time.
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They were unbelievable here in Minnesota Monday night, the best I've seen in a long time, you could even see shades of red.
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