Northern Lights

[Squeak 17]

Can i get to see the Northern light from either near Vancouver or Toronto?
If not where would be a good place to see them (excluding Alaska and the Arctic Circle)

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[Amazon 7]

You have to have fairly energetic solar activity to see them this far south. We saw them a t LP a few years ago...awsum..

PLUS it has to be clear.... and in winter when the nights are long in Vancouver or Seattle.. your chances of getting clear skies..... slim to none.

[Shell666 0]

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You have to have fairly energetic solar activity to see them this far south. We saw them a t LP a few years ago...awsum..

PLUS it has to be clear.... and in winter when the nights are long in Vancouver or Seattle.. your chances of getting clear skies..... slim to none.

Jeanne's right. Even here in Edmonton, which is a fair bit farther north than Vancouver, hasn't seen much of them in the last several years.

Fort McMurray, Alberta, which is a 5 hour drive north of here still gets a glimpse of them. But that's probably too far off your travel plans. Plus the cold there would bite.

'Shell

[Amazon 7]

I think the best time to see the Aurora.. is during sunspot maximum events.. and that is going to be a few years off.

We are at a solar minimum.. so I dont think they are going to be seen for a while on the 11 year cycle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspot

A minimum in the eleven-year sunspot cycle may happen during 2008.[1] While the reverse polarity sunspot[2] observed on 4 January 2008 may represent the start of Cycle 24, no additional sunspots have yet been seen in this cycle.

[billvon 3,070]

>We are at a solar minimum.. so I dont think they are going to be seen
>for a while on the 11 year cycle

On the plus side, this has been an unusually long minimum, and typically when the cycle does fire up after a long minimum it's stronger than average.

[Shell666 0]

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I think the best time to see the Aurora.. is during sunspot maximum events.. and that is going to be a few years off.

We are at a solar minimum.. so I dont think they are going to be seen for a while on the 11 year cycle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspot

A minimum in the eleven-year sunspot cycle may happen during 2008.[1] While the reverse polarity sunspot[2] observed on 4 January 2008 may represent the start of Cycle 24, no additional sunspots have yet been seen in this cycle.

There you both go getting all "scientific" on us.

I'm just going off of my own personal view of it, outside the city lights.

They were much brighter when I was a kid. Now, not so much.

'Shell

[Amazon 7]

I got to see them lots the winter I spent in Fairbanks....


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[Squeak 17]

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I got to see them lots the winter I spent in Fairbanks....


Hey you might like this website....
Forecast

Then again... Squeak might like this one better.

predictable .

I'm not one of those who constantly request them
Try keeping it on topic please Jeanne

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[Squeak 17]

I'm thinking i might have better luck in Norway, any Norwegians here?

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[1969912 0]

I've seen them from about 40 miles East of Portland, OR, but it's not common that far South.

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[Amazon 7]

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[Andrewwhyte 1]

Actually they have been out 3 or 4 times in the last month just north of Edmonton. They were out last Sunday but only in green.

[jcd11235 0]

I opened this thread thinking it was going to be about ganja.

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[Squeak 17]

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I opened this thread thinking it was going to be about ganja.

thanks for the IQ indicator

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[jcd11235 0]

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I opened this thread thinking it was going to be about ganja.

thanks for the IQ indicator

You'd be hard pressed to find a correlation between IQ and cannabis knowledge and/or use.

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[Squeak 17]

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I opened this thread thinking it was going to be about ganja.

thanks for the IQ indicator

You'd be hard pressed to find a correlation between IQ and cannabis knowledge and/or use.

I wasn't reefer-ing to use, but to your assumption

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[lilDevil 2]

Norway :-)

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[piisfish 140]

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I opened this thread thinking it was going to be about ganja.

here you go

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[jclalor 12]

Believe it or not I saw them in Memphis in 1982 while in the navy. It was very strange to see a large red pulsating mass in space, many thought it was perhaps the end of the world.

[porpoishead 8]

I remeber that stuff.. my girl made me smoke some of that shit with her...doood i was fucking stupefied for a little while that shit is insane

i'm not above burning a tree or two whenever the fuck but that stuff is overkill no???

i was fucking ripped with just a few pulls LMAO!!!

now she has some stuff that taste like those grape candies violets..grape soda tasting shit knocks me on my ass too

them plants are violent these days

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[popsjumper 2]

You want light? Flip the freakin' switch, dude.

You want colored lights? Orange Sunshine works. Any Owsley product works very well.

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[lilDevil 2]

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I'm thinking i might have better luck in Norway, any Norwegians here?

Take a cruise up through the ( i know im gonna spell thios wrong ) Fiords thats were i saw them :-)

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[pirana 0]

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I'm thinking i might have better luck in Norway, any Norwegians here?

Take a cruise up through the ( i know im gonna spell thios wrong ) Fiords thats were i saw them :-)

Fjords.

Courtesy of Sladi Bladvast.

Now someone can correct my spelling.

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[JSBIRD 1]

I prefer Northern Lights #5

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[Darius11 12]

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I opened this thread thinking it was going to be about ganja.

thats good shit right there

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