Well that was cool.
Got up around 1 AM to go do my night run (even though the days are technically cooling down now and I could probably go when it’s light). Got out on the path and noticed that there were huge swaths of green northern lights streaking through the sky. They lasted probably half of my run before dissipating.
It’s a weird thing to say, but I’ve never felt more safe during a night run. How can one get hurt under the northern lights?
(I know that’s a weird thing to say, but that’s what I was thinking while running.)
(Shut up.)
At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country?
(Sorry)
What the sun is doing to the earth right now:
(Screenshot of – what else? – a SolarBalls video)
Anyway. I was afraid we wouldn’t get a cool aurora show here because 1) it was kind of cloudy, 2) it seemed like everyone else in the world was already posting pictures of their light shows and we were still in complete darkness, and 3) that would just be my luck.
However, Nate picked the perfect time for us to go outside and we caught the lights just as they started to appear.
I took 100 pictures, but here are my favorite five:
This was my first time seeing the northern lights. WOO!
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