He recorded the phenomenon in this photo:
"I've been working more than 400 nights as a Northern Lights guide, and although sometimes I think I've seen it all, never I have witnessed white auroras like that," says Varik. "It was amazing to see it unravel white like that in front of my eyes. Pure magic!"
Auroras get their colors from specific elements in Earth's upper atmosphere. Green auroras, for instance, come from atomic oxygen; blue is associated with molecular nitrogen. No element produces white. So where did it come from?
An important clue: Elsewhere in Scandinavia, intense ribbons of pale pink appeared. Here is a specimen recorded by an automated auroracam in Abisko, Sweden:
The Solar Wind blows every day.
(Just more so now)
The solar wind came blowin’ in from across the sea
It lingered there, to touch your hair and walk with me
All summer long we sang a song and then we strolled that golden sand
Two sweethearts and the solar wind
Like painted kites, those days and nights they went flyin’ by
The world was new beneath a blue umbrella sky
Then softer than a piper man, one day it called to you
I lost you, I lost you to the solar wind
The autumn wind, and the winter winds they have come and gone
And still the days, those lonely days, they go on and on
And guess who sighs his lullabies through nights that never end
My fickle friend, the solar wind
The solar wind
Warm solar wind
The solar wind
_________________________
Frank Sinatra - Solar Wind
Manmade Solar Climate Change.
Racism and the free-market have disrupted the climate in the Sun’s core. There is scientific consensus.
I saw thin white aurora in Cook Inlet, AK a long time ago. Was not an impressive display, looked cloud like.
