Northern Lights In Finland 2018

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Northern lights in finland 2018.

The northern lights return to the skies towards the end of august when the nights are drawing in once more. Being one of the best places to spot the aurorae finland has even received immigration because of them. How to get to finland and to the northern lights destinations of finnish lapland. Had it not been for bad weather we would have seen the lights on the other nights too.

Reuters alexander kuznetsov reuters saturday september 28 2019. The northern lights danced for us three nights in a row. The northern lights dancing up above is such a powerful and unique natural phenomenon it changes lives down on earth. We spent over a week in lapland during late december and early january and were among the extremely fortunate.

When particles are emitted by the sun and strike atoms in the earth s atmosphere these atoms light up producing the beautiful colors we see in the aurora borealis. The northern lights are visible on roughly 200 nights a year or every other clear night in finnish lapland. Until 1 a m and in finland the temperatures regularly sink to 22 fahrenheit. In fact the northern lights are caused by the sun.

As a matter of fact autumn and early spring are the best time for catching the northern lights as solar activity is quite intense and reliable. The aurora borealis northern lights is seen in the sky in ivalo of lapland finland september 27 2019. The season for northern lights in finland is longer than is some neighboring countries and stretches from september through march. Discovering finland on january 11 2018 at 10 58 am regarding the noises the auroras make national geographic have reported finnish scientists have not only shown that they really happen but now the team thinks they know why.

March is also considered to be the month with the clearest skies. Other northern lights mythology in finland held that the aurora was the spouts sprayed into the night sky by whales. The more traditional ways to go aurora spotting are snowshoeing cross country skiing or snowmobile and sled dog touring. An island girl from the tropics.