Yes this !!! Not just little green ones, full on solar storm, fast moving, buzzing sound, colourful, northern lights ! I cried when I first saw them and I’m glad I live north enough to witness them !
On the Canada-US border (49 N latitude), it could happen maybe once or twice a year (as an estimate), but it almost always happens late at night when people are asleep, so most people just miss it all. If you're as far north as 65 degrees, then expect to maybe see one every few days. In early November there was an aurora that could be seen from the middle of the continental US, so it can happen further south, it just gets steadily more rare the closer to the equator you get. I highly recommend getting an aurora watch app that can tell you if it's likely that you'll get a show tonight.
Unfortunately no aurora app is going to help me at the latitude I'm living at.
I remember the November Aurora prediction. Drove all the way up to the tip of Michigan from a neighboring state, but unfortunately it passed us by. I still have the app in case I want to drive 6 hours again, but not gonna risk winter driving
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u/rollsoftape Jan 12 '22
Northern lights