Aurora activity will be “high” tonight and could be seen in parts of British Columbia, including Metro Vancouver, according to a forecast from the University of Alaska.
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Metro Vancouver could be a Halloween treat, as the forecast for cold, clear skies could usher in a sighting of the Northern Lights. However, photographers who were expecting the colorful phenomenon on Saturday doubt that it will appear.
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There will be 2º Celsius with light winds from the northeast on Sunday night, according to Environment Canada. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration remains in effect a strong geomagnetic storm watch.
Aurora activity will be “high” tonight and could be seen in parts of British Columbia, including Metro Vancouver, according to a forecast from the University of Alaska.
“The aurora is a luminous glow seen around the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemispheres. Light is caused by collisions between electrically charged particles that leave the sun in the solar wind that enter the Earth’s atmosphere and collide with gas molecules and atoms, mainly oxygen and nitrogen ”.
Photographers who stood guard on Spanish banks for hours on Saturday night were disappointed not to see the famous Northern Lights in the morning. One of them, Tina Taphouse of Langley, drove to Whistler the last two nights.
“I waited and nothing. I have no hope of them making an appearance tonight, ”Taphouse said. “I’ve been chasing the Northern Lights for years and only caught them once in Whistler in 2017.”
North Vancouver amateur photographer Mark Teasdale said he has lived in Vancouver for more than five decades and has never seen the Northern Lights.
“Seeing with the naked eye is so weird,” Teasdale tweeted Sunday morning.
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Reference-vancouversun.com