Northern Lights In Finland 2018
The more traditional ways to go aurora spotting are snowshoeing cross country skiing or snowmobile and sled dog touring.
Northern lights in finland 2018. Had it not been for bad weather we would have seen the lights on the other nights too. The northern lights danced for us three nights in a row. The northern lights are visible on roughly 200 nights a year or every other clear night in finnish lapland. In fact the northern lights are caused by the sun.
Being one of the best places to spot the aurorae finland has even received immigration because of them. March is also considered to be the month with the clearest skies. We spent over a week in lapland during late december and early january and were among the extremely fortunate. The aurora borealis northern lights is seen in the sky in ivalo of lapland finland september 27 2019.
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 return to the skies towards the end of august when the nights are drawing in once more. How to get to finland and to the northern lights destinations of finnish lapland. The season for northern lights in finland is longer than is some neighboring countries and stretches from september through march.
It was a magical experience seeing the northern lights from our igloo bungalow in kakslauttanen resort in lapland finland. 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. An island girl from the tropics. That s why our holidays to finland start in the autumn when auroral displays re emerge in the darkness after the summer s 24 hours of daylight this is a wonderful time to travel as you can often see the aurora reflected in the as yet unfrozen lakes and.
The northern lights dancing up above is such a powerful and unique natural phenomenon it changes lives down on earth. Until 1 a m and in finland the temperatures regularly sink to 22 fahrenheit. Other northern lights mythology in finland held that the aurora was the spouts sprayed into the night sky by whales. Reuters alexander kuznetsov reuters saturday september 28 2019.