Blogtober 2024 : Day 10
Oh my goodness, I am beyond excited! I have seen the Northern Lights in Winwick! There’s a huge geomagnetic storm in progress tonight, apparently (not the same as storms on earth so not linked to all the wild weather elsewhere in the world**, but if you’ve got the wild weather, I am sending you love and hoping you are safe), and whilst I was out with the dog, I looked up to see what I thought might be slightly pink clouds. We’re close to the M6 and M62 motorways here so the light pollution is pretty high, but I live in hope and I keep an aurora app on my phone just in case.
We walked away from the street lights and I just clicked away with my camera – I’ve read that you can see the aurora best through a camera lens anyway – and hoped for the best. And when I got home to look properly with my specs on, there they were. Pink, green, beautiful and I feel so very lucky.
It’s 10.30pm and it’s still going! Goodness, it’s been amazing and I can’t quite believe it! Isn’t nature just wonderful?
** Thank you to Fran for explaining to me that geomagnetic storms don’t affect the weather – I had assumed everything was connected! xx
oh wow. Thank you! I’m over excited now too! I saw your post and looked out of the window in Leeds and there it was! Didn’t see the green but very pink! I can’t believe it! I’ve never been able to be certain I’ve seen it before.
I wasn’t sure that I had seen it either as I thought it might be wishful thinking, but the camera says otherwise – and I’ve spoken to a few friends who can see it too. It definitely helps to take a photo but I could see the pink without the camera a short while ago 🙂 xx
The geomagnetic storm is related to a solar wind shock wave from a recent coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun. Nothing to do with hurricanes, tornadoes or storm surges.
But the aurora created by this are amazing!
Thank you! I’ll update my post – I think I assumed that “storm” affected everything! 🙂 xx
Visible here in Hull too despite the light pollution. 🙂
Oh how lovely. People were posting from Jersey too but nothing in my corner and I didn’t fancy the drive out west lol! B x
Just beautiful.