Northern Lights - Right Now
Mates,
If you live anywhere even remotely close to a clear sky and not too much urban light pollution, go outside right now. The Northern Lights are about as dramatic as I have ever seen them in the lower peninsula - shimmering and absolutely fantastic.
Hope you can see them.
XM
March 23rd, 2023 at 11:41 PM ^
Cloudy where I’m at. Can’t see shit
March 24th, 2023 at 10:49 AM ^
"My cousin's broke, don't do shit"
March 23rd, 2023 at 11:44 PM ^
Jealous!
March 23rd, 2023 at 11:49 PM ^
they are flashing over and around the sky everywhere- north, south, east, and west. straight up, shimmering, colored, but mostly white and green. for the lower 48, this is about as good as it gets.
March 23rd, 2023 at 11:56 PM ^
Lucky!
March 23rd, 2023 at 11:47 PM ^
Picture?
March 24th, 2023 at 12:18 AM ^
i don't know how to post texts. i'll send one to hillbilly, maybe he can do that.
thank you hillbilly. you are a champ to wrestle with that and post it. great work.
Very cool.
Amazing. We don't get them fancy sky lights around here (Plant City, FL). Only lightning... lots of lightning.
You do have Wish Farms berries!
So you got that going for you!
I visited during the Strawberry 🍓 Festival a couple weeks ago; we ate lots of desserts there and the next few days. And for breakfast I sprinkled a few Cheerios on a bowl of berries all week long.
Here are a couple from Calumet! More in full resolution here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/FC1WYdhJkMcCurZa9
That is crazy. I only saw them once when i was driving back up from the lower peninsula. Saw them while driving along the southern shore of Superior.
I saw them a bunch of times at Tech, but that's because the last solar maximum (2014) was while I was in school (2011-2016) and I spent a lot of time adventuring at night. What we saw last night is the best I've ever seen, with only one other night in 2013 coming close. Lucky for us, the next solar maximum is 2025, so we've got a few more years of good aurora coming up!
March 24th, 2023 at 10:18 AM ^
I saw them once on a boat at night on Lake Huron. In the darkness on the lake they were spectacular. (we were in our 20s and argued for about 10 minutes about what we were seeing)
March 23rd, 2023 at 11:49 PM ^
That's not the Northern Lights, it's the glow of couches burning in East Lansing.
March 23rd, 2023 at 11:56 PM ^
EL to the south, not the north. no smoke accompanying flashes and lights. no smell of burning polyester, no yells of sparty 'students'. hypothesis not verified.
Could be....
Graduation?
March 24th, 2023 at 12:47 PM ^
The neighbors were decidedly not pleased last night.
March 23rd, 2023 at 11:50 PM ^
Leelanau County native. They’re amazing tonight. A welcome nightlight while wrapping up this Gonzaga/UCLA game!
March 23rd, 2023 at 11:53 PM ^
Those are couches
March 23rd, 2023 at 11:56 PM ^
First thought this was about the classic cannabis strain Northern Lights.
I am in downtown Nashville on the last day of a week long business trip so pretty sure my latitude is too low to see anything (ignoring the massive light pollution of Broadway Street)
If I had known, I’d have bought you a beer
Awfully kind of you. My job bought me plenty. Probably put on 5 lbs this week with all the business dinners, bbq, and drinking until midnight. I’m exhausted
March 24th, 2023 at 12:08 AM ^
Clear sky, but none here in Florida.
March 24th, 2023 at 12:33 AM ^
Where are you? Pretty cloudy here in Ann Arbor, can't even see any stars
March 24th, 2023 at 12:46 AM ^
about 200 miles north of you. sorry you can't see them, they really are pretty cool.
March 24th, 2023 at 10:21 AM ^
They were visible in Clare County, which is 1.5 hours north of EL and just south of Houghton Lake for those who don't know.
March 24th, 2023 at 12:34 AM ^
From a friend of mine in Wisconsin tonight. 
March 24th, 2023 at 12:42 AM ^
thanks wendy. ours are like that, too, but i don't know how to post a picture from my phone.
i shared a couple of texts/photos with some of the other mgobloggers, and hopefully one of them can post.
Full arc across the sky, east to west, for us. Had to drive for a bit to get out of the light pollution and find a good spot without trees, but it worked out.
Photos or it didn't happen?
if i had anything to do with getting you out the door to go see them then i am happy. it really was a dynamite show for any time i've lived 'below the bridge' here in michigan.
I always thought you lived above the bridge! Huh...
great site. thank you (not so)saddog
The Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?
you should see what's for dessert!
May I see it?
March 24th, 2023 at 11:59 AM ^
This puts me in the mood for Steamed Hams.
Not everybody has a pet penguin. Braggart.
I've never seen them. :( saw reports of them and went out too look, but too much light pollution to the north
Too cloudy and too south for me last night... Alas, the last time I can clearly remember seeing the Northern Lights was on a fly-in fishing trip in Ontario. My brother and I laid on the ground near the campfire and watched them for about an hour - it was a magnificent show, green, yellow, blue, red, and purple in all directions. Kind of eerie, at the same time as magnificently awesome.
All the time I spent in the Artic Circle, including at the actual North Pole itself, I never saw them. Probably because most of that time I was underwater, but whatever...
Underwater above the Artic Circle... Sounds a bit chilly.
Sounds even more stuffy. My Nephew has a strong dislike for whales as a result of similar adventures.