OH WHAT A NIGHT!
OH WHAT A NIGHT!
Well last night and early this morning I had the good fortune of seeing the Northern lights [AKA—Aurora Borealis ]. They started about 9:30pm and went on for the entire night right up till daylight I am told. I stayed up till 3:15 in the morning watching the sky myself. It went back and forth from quiet displays to some of the most awesome displays I have ever seen. Not that I have seen them that many times, this was only my fifth time.
They had to be impressive for me to spend as much time as I did outside in two degree weather. I went out at 9:30pm for the first display and watch a good show that kept me outside till 10:pm when it subsided to a quite display, just a little action on the horizon. I picked this time to go in the house and get warm. It was a balmy seven degrees at that time. I went and got the young man [Andrew] that lives next door to me and we watch the first display on my deck together, he like myself thinks the northern lights are an awesome sight. When I went in to get warm he headed home to get warm and get some sleep he is only fifteen and needed the rest for that school thing. I kept an eye out for the display to start up again. I have found with my vast experience [all five of my sightings] that they always give you a much better second show in an hour or less. This night was no exception, at about 11pm I noticed the lights getting very active again so I put on my coat and hat and back outside I went. By this time it was down to 5 degrees, Ten minutes into a great show Andrew showed up on my deck, He noticed the new activity just before going to bed and could not resist the chance to see more of them. He will have a rough day at school tomorrow I’m sure, for we stayed outside watching this great spectacle till at least 11:45pm. At this time the lights went back to quiet displays and Andrew went home to get some sleep once again, and I retreated back into the house hoping that my feet would thaw out and that my toes would not break off. I thought that would be the last of the flair ups for the night, but I kept an eye looking out my windows for more active displays just in case. I did end up going outside a few times to get a better look at some very good but short activities. Just before 2:00am I decided to call it a night and go to bed, but I took one last look out the window and I’m glad I did. I could see streaks of dark green coming off the horizon and I took that to be a sign of another big display on the way, so outside I went once again, this time it was only two degrees. I was wrong, this display was bigger then big it stretched the whole length of the northern horizon and out to the middle of the sky. In one place you would see the lights crisscrossing each other like they were in a fierce sword fight. Turn your head a little and you would see waves of light moving across the sky at a rapid pace, turn a little more and you would see just an eerie patch of green light. It was like trying to watch three or four TVs at one time. I can remember thinking if I knew nothing about the northern lights I would surely think I was watching the world come to it’s end. I could feel the hair standing up on the back of my neck. This was by far the most awesome thing that I have seen in my lifetime to date. I never felt the cold outside for the first twenty minutes I was too fascinated with the lights. When I did notice the cold I forced myself to stay out there for another 10 minutes. Then I went inside to get warm and watch the rest of the show from my picture window, but that lasted only about twenty minutes then I saw that the lights were forming bright green oblong shapes. It was like watching someone draw them on the sky, so back out in the cold I went for another ten minutes. By 3:15am they were back to just a quite display so I rushed to bed before I felt the pull from the lights taking me outside again. I heard there was a good display at about 5:00am but I was in bed by then. I was disappointed a number of times this fall because I was lock in with clouds and missed out on other chances too see lights. But last night made up for it. And because of that I got up this morning feeling like the luckiest man in the world.
This is me saying good by to you till another day
Well last night and early this morning I had the good fortune of seeing the Northern lights [AKA—Aurora Borealis ]. They started about 9:30pm and went on for the entire night right up till daylight I am told. I stayed up till 3:15 in the morning watching the sky myself. It went back and forth from quiet displays to some of the most awesome displays I have ever seen. Not that I have seen them that many times, this was only my fifth time.
They had to be impressive for me to spend as much time as I did outside in two degree weather. I went out at 9:30pm for the first display and watch a good show that kept me outside till 10:pm when it subsided to a quite display, just a little action on the horizon. I picked this time to go in the house and get warm. It was a balmy seven degrees at that time. I went and got the young man [Andrew] that lives next door to me and we watch the first display on my deck together, he like myself thinks the northern lights are an awesome sight. When I went in to get warm he headed home to get warm and get some sleep he is only fifteen and needed the rest for that school thing. I kept an eye out for the display to start up again. I have found with my vast experience [all five of my sightings] that they always give you a much better second show in an hour or less. This night was no exception, at about 11pm I noticed the lights getting very active again so I put on my coat and hat and back outside I went. By this time it was down to 5 degrees, Ten minutes into a great show Andrew showed up on my deck, He noticed the new activity just before going to bed and could not resist the chance to see more of them. He will have a rough day at school tomorrow I’m sure, for we stayed outside watching this great spectacle till at least 11:45pm. At this time the lights went back to quiet displays and Andrew went home to get some sleep once again, and I retreated back into the house hoping that my feet would thaw out and that my toes would not break off. I thought that would be the last of the flair ups for the night, but I kept an eye looking out my windows for more active displays just in case. I did end up going outside a few times to get a better look at some very good but short activities. Just before 2:00am I decided to call it a night and go to bed, but I took one last look out the window and I’m glad I did. I could see streaks of dark green coming off the horizon and I took that to be a sign of another big display on the way, so outside I went once again, this time it was only two degrees. I was wrong, this display was bigger then big it stretched the whole length of the northern horizon and out to the middle of the sky. In one place you would see the lights crisscrossing each other like they were in a fierce sword fight. Turn your head a little and you would see waves of light moving across the sky at a rapid pace, turn a little more and you would see just an eerie patch of green light. It was like trying to watch three or four TVs at one time. I can remember thinking if I knew nothing about the northern lights I would surely think I was watching the world come to it’s end. I could feel the hair standing up on the back of my neck. This was by far the most awesome thing that I have seen in my lifetime to date. I never felt the cold outside for the first twenty minutes I was too fascinated with the lights. When I did notice the cold I forced myself to stay out there for another 10 minutes. Then I went inside to get warm and watch the rest of the show from my picture window, but that lasted only about twenty minutes then I saw that the lights were forming bright green oblong shapes. It was like watching someone draw them on the sky, so back out in the cold I went for another ten minutes. By 3:15am they were back to just a quite display so I rushed to bed before I felt the pull from the lights taking me outside again. I heard there was a good display at about 5:00am but I was in bed by then. I was disappointed a number of times this fall because I was lock in with clouds and missed out on other chances too see lights. But last night made up for it. And because of that I got up this morning feeling like the luckiest man in the world.
This is me saying good by to you till another day
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