Northern Lights

Northern Lights

The Northern Lights are also known as the "Aurora". Usually you can see the Northern Lights between the months September to March in Scandinavian. They are not visible every day and the sky has to be clear to see it. In this weather conditions, the temperature always drop a lot as well. I didn't know that it is so hard to catch them. I imagined that as soon you stay in a Nordic country you are able to see the Northern Lights. The truth hit my hard; In Turku there were no Northern Lights at all. I was told that you can see it from time to time also in Turku but it's very rare. 

The chance to see it in Lapland is much higher because it's located more in the north. I stayed in Levi (Lapland) for almost one week. Every  clear night I went outside, the temperature was always around minus 25 degrees during the night, to try to catch the Northern Lights. You have to stay at a dark spot to see them, there should be no artificial light. There are more comfortable things to do than staying in this cold and waiting for some Aurora. I recommend to wear that many layers you can wear to keep yourself warm more or less. 

Finally I had the chance to see it one in my lifetime; I stayed on a frozen lake and waited for more than half an hour. Suddenly, there were kind of clouds on the sky visible. After a few minutes this clouds turned into green lines - the Aurora. The Northern Lights stayed at the sky for around 30 seconds or even some minutes and then they were gone again. After some minutes new clouds were on the sky and another Northern Light was visible. I was also able to hear them. Yes, it's true, sometimes you can also hear the Northern Lights. It sounded like the cracking noise of a fireplace. It was just magical!