Why the Northern Lights could get more intense | BBC Global
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- Before satellite technology brought us answers, the Northern Lights were a mysterious and unexplained phenomena, long woven into the legends of Arctic communities.
Occurring in the polar regions, this colourful light show is caused by particles from the Sun hitting the Earth's atmosphere.
Scientists predict that this year or next, the solar cycle will peak and a period of more intense and complex Northern Lights will follow.
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Three cheers for Earth's protective magnetic field! 🥳 🎉 👏 👏
No
Yep. Our amazing magnetosphere a testimony to our amazing Creator.
✅ It's a very significant reason to why anything other than primitive organisms & possibly deep sea soft tissued animals exist. The very intense levels of broad spectrum radiation would have likely severely restricted evolution of higher life - certainly on the exposed land surface.
Go look at what's happening to that magnetic field right now. Here's a start: go read about the field strength loss over the last 20 years.
@@bobbyhill3323 S0
I'd love to see it for myself with my own eyes. Every time auroras are forecast in the UK I look out of the windows at night to see if I can spot it but I never do. It doesn't help with the street lights, some of which never go out. I've only ever seen it once, I'll never forget it. One time Dad and I were at one of his friends places, and I kept seeing green flashes of light in the sky and I didn't know what it was. Apparently that was the aurora every now and then lighting up the sky.
Last week was my first time seeing them - aged 57 - Street lighting definitely diminishes your view, so keep your eyes on the news as over the next 12-18 months there are expected to be a few more big events. The further north you live, the better your chances, although the recent lights were seen down in the Channel Islands, so there is hope. Top tip is to go somewhere away from street lights then give your eyes time to adapt to the darkness. By eye I could see what looked like a long pale cloud, it was only with a camera that I could see the full effect. Good luck.
You need to go outside away from lights & let your eyes adjust to the dark, then you might see it. I couldn't see anything from my house until I went outside & let my eye adjust & then it was everywhere
Definitely on my bucket list!
Your best viewing will be away from light pollution. Take a drive out of town.
First time seeing it in Vancouver Canada
One word, Sun .
Yes....and nothing to do with HUMAN and cattle CO2 emmisions. Although... windmill to generate electricity and pump some water might be handy....for awhile anyway....🙃
Its weakening at an exponential rate.
Suspicious0bservers!!!
Magnetic pole shift is underway. Shields are at 70% strength, captain!
Suspicious0bservers is a science denier grifter. Solar Astrophisics is actually real: the sun`s magnetic pole reverts almost every 11 years. The earths don`t. Go read some books.
Nibiru on it's way
@@James-yu8nv lololol the no show, non existent threat. Hide!!!
I live in southern New Mexico and missed out on the auroras we had this weekend. Fortunately, local people posted pictures they took. Deep rose and purple covering the whole sky. I'm certain we'll have more of these southern events this year and next.
we will be seeing these more and more and more our magnetosphere is weakening we are having a pole flip
1. Our magnetic poles are not expected to flip for at least another thousand years.
2. Even if it did it would represent no great threat to life on earth as humanity would have plenty of notice given it takes centuries to ramp up to and complete, and given there is no geological record showing any mass extinction events correlating with prior polar reversals and even at the midway peak of such an event the planet is still adequately covered by out magnetosphere, just spaghettified with many differing north and south poles. should make GPS interesting...
3. The only way you would see "more and more" auroras would be if the sun was having more and more solar flares completely irrespective of what our magnetosphere was doing.
@@Nine-Signs we're 300k years late for the next one. radiation will be greater once the magnetosphere weakens. A flip can happen within a human life time.
@@Nine-Signs12,000 year cycle with lesser occurrences at 6000 years. The entire solar system including our sun is riding the galactic wave and it has great ramifications across the solar system. Yes there are records of this geologically. See Ben Davidson’s work, or just wait and see, Aurora down to Puerto Rico from an X3 storm when 1859 and 1921 were 10 times stronger storms. 🧐
Surprised the BBC didn’t blame it on farming
climate change and raysisms
Or whitey.
or climate change lmao
Rent free
I wonder if Trump will be charged over it? Surely they can make this one stick? WAIT! I forgot to say climate change. It`s trendy!
I usually go watch them by myself without a camera so I don't see the bright colors. My friend was with this time, and we did get to see all the colors, including the rare blue! I also discovered my phone takes much better pictures than I thought so I got pictures as well.
The video explains the aurora phenomenon in great detail!! I myself also have different perspectives on this truth. Truly this beauty needs to be discovered...
a decent job at explaining solar cycles but total nothing on how a storm like this would have had negligible effect even 10 years ago when our magnetosphere was much more robust.
@@jasonsharma5888 Thank you
Our magnetic field is on a slippery slope of decline. Put that with being in solar maximum it’s taking less energy to cause them. They’re magnificent to see to be sure.
And you better hope that's where it ends,however I have a sneaky that there's a bit more to it
@@lockk132 Yep, same here. I didn’t want to rain on the parade for now.
its down 25% and now probably 30% with those recent auroras
@@bencoad8492 The auroras do not affect the magnetic field. It's the magnetic field that helps create them. They funnel the solar particles to the two poles. Then those particles head down to earth and react with the gasses in our atmosphere. Our magnet field is just fine and will remain so for many millions of years to come.
@@DaveBuildsThings I wish you were right. But this is a cyclical event. The earth’s magnetic field has likely never been fine for millions of years. Every 12,000 yrs the field weakens, the poles shift and the Mother rolls over. It’s been 12,000 years since the last shift. We’re right on schedule. I know. It sounds like science fiction but it’s science fact.
@BBC Global, can you add subtitles please?
Subtitles can be turned on with the rectangular "subtitles/closed captions" icon near the bottom right of the video window.
How beautiful is the firmament!!!
I've only seen them once when I was visiting family in Northern Quebec. They do make a sound - I always compared it to the sound of the old Wrigley gum foil wrappers.
That's more scary then fascinating.
Wonderful
"The abysses, when beneath a luminous crown the heavenly fire is wanting, forming as it were the circular entrance to a cavern; the turns, when a great rounded flame in the form of a barrel is seen to move from place to place, or to burn immovable; the gulfs, when the heaven seems to open and to vomit flames . . . sometimes these fires are high enough to shine among the stars; at others, so low that they might be taken for the reflection of a distant burning homestead or city." - Seneca, the Younger (4BC - 65AD).
Poetic - but unenlightened. I suppose he hasn't claimed that Helios' Sun chariot has caught fire at least. 😕
@@grahampalmer9337 This is the typical smug arrogance of a foolish modern reading an ancient philosopher, and it's rampant in our times. 'Trust the scientists' indeed!
As beautiful as they are. Our planet is in extreme danger. When will main media start being honest?
Never!
Not gonna happen. They are only reporting now because the last solar storm drew way too much attention to it globally. It would be suspicious if they ignored that and yet made a bigger deal about the eclipse. They can't come out and tell people that our modern way of life is about to end. That would collapse the entire system now. The lights out scenario may not happen for some time. Could be this year, next year, or even longer. The problem for the elites now is that the cat is out of the bag. People witnessed something insane and will start looking deeper into it, even more so when the next G5 storm creates low latitude auroras again. They will find out about the magnetosphere. The media will probably get orders to label people that say the magnetosphere is losing its strength, a right-wing, nazi, homophobic conspiracy theorist.
Gaia strikes back! Time to get rid of this pesky human infestation. The planet is just fine, it’s humans that are in danger.
Exactly these lights have been seen in northern uk for a while now in the past you had to travel to Norway or something to see them
@@bonysminiatures3123 I'm in Victoria Australia 🇦🇺
Folks, this video was focused on briefly talking about solar maximum and the upcoming journey back into it. As an amateur astronomer and professional astrophotographer as they’ve said we’ve been here before, about every 11 years. They likely have other videos talking about this. This is just a short video about a specific topic while The Northern Lights are a popular topic right now.
They didn’t focus on the Earth’s magnetic field was because that wasn’t the focus of the video. It was just a brief touch on the topic of auroras. Yes, people are talking about it; just do a simple Google or CZcams search if you want more info.
The poles are always slightly shifting. The sun’s poles flip too. Look it up if you want to know. No need to freak out.
And denying we humans have no impact on our environment (i.e. climate change) is like never cleaning up your house nor taking a bath and not disposing of any garbage and so forth and claiming it’s not your fault it stinks, rodents have taken up residence, some mold is toxic, you have to crawl over filth, and ya smell. 🙄
Obviously, unless one has NO understanding of nature, we do have an impact on our world. Beavers change their entire environment by building a dam in a waterway; to put it very, very simply. We humans imitate that and so much more. Building a highway will change the way the wind travels and weather for that area. Building a manmade lake can actually create lake effect snow in winter among other things. Putting up a building and cutting down trees will change wind, weather, wildlife movements, and so forth. Sheesh, I’ll never understand deniers and gripers complaining about cleaning up after themselves and folks wanting clean water, fresh clean air, planting trees, and doing whatever we can to make the world a better place. Yes, we live and should love life and part of that is building things and travel, but seriously cleaning up after ourselves actually benefits us too.
NPC detected.
Of course we have impact and have done plenty of damage. But we haven’t caused climate change and there not a damn thing we can do about it. The poles aren’t doing the usual meandering. They’re on a road trip heading towards each other. Have you looked at a compass lately? We’ve been here before too. The poles shift every 12,000 years & we’re right on schedule.
A few days ago people from north and south of us in Germany spotted aurora. But, we didn't lol
It's not just the northern lights...
NZ and Australia were treated to the southern lights last Saturday...
In places that have never had them before.....
LSD and this phenomena are a match made in heaven
Nope. No need …..
@@maggiejohnson5891clearly you haven’t tried lsd. LSD makes anything better, and visuals like this would be insane, possibly mind melting
@@maggiejohnson5891 I appreciate the person that is happy to naturally experience the wonders of the world with their own mind and senses, far more than a loser drug addict.
@@skycloud4802 And there shines your ignorance; “Addicted to LSD” is laughable at best. Im sorry your mind is small and unexpanded.
@@skycloud4802how can you comment on what would be better when you have only tried one? Illogical narrow mindedness at its finest 🤦 do some research into something before sharing your opinions
The Aurora! Northern Lights!
'We' see it only on clear dark nights but this is a 24-7-365¼ (if the 'Solar wind' is strong enough) phenomenomenon.
Yes, from the ground if you're at the polar regions you wouldn't be able to see it for the summer months because it never gets dark enough 🌞
I love the mixture of modernity and tradition from the lady herder!!
Thank god for the closed caption ... Almost impossible to understand all the words..🧐😒
Why don't the BBC question the link between global warming and auroras? The do it for everything else?
Because there's no link between the two.
@@abcde_5949 Prove it
@@EuroWarsOrgcyclical changes in climate have been occurring for milleniums and beyond......Expect more UV RAYS/Radiation to break through the weakening magnectic field. That in itself, will cause more severe weather patterns. It's not human CO2.
Because they want to blame it on the industrial revolution which has only been going for 100 years lol , they forget there is a huge star on our doorstep which is our central heating
@@abcde_5949 powerful bursts emitting from the sun will change the climate exponentially
You focus on these aurorae as being "a thing of beauty". No mention of Kristian Birkeland? The Norwegian scientist that made the discovery of the sun being the origin of the aurora... These are electric phenomena.
You made no mention of the earth's magnetic field weakening at an accelerating rate? and that the current aurorae are much more vivid and intense than the same intensity CMEs would have produced decades ago. Even with constant CME intensity in the near future, aurorae will be more intense as our magnetic field reduces even further.
A Carrington Event today would be a termination level event for civilization as we know it.
Bingo!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe they don’t want mass hysteria?
Fan fiction
Look up the Carrington Event which was in early September of 1859. It disrupted telegraph operations back in that time. Since then, we have only become more reliant on electricity. A similar (or larger) solar event today could be devastating to all modern electrical usage. The results to our way of life could be catastrophic and that is no exaggeration.
@seanprice7645 that G5 wasn’t a direct hit.
Psy-op for the coming solar flare
I got a fantastic display overhead in Bolton, Lancashire. I made a GIF of 1,000+ frames took with my planetary camera and all sky lens. I uploaded it too. :)
Why was the earths weakening magnetic field not discussed. We have seen the auroras this time as far south as porto reca with only a g3 cme, when last seen there 1857 and 1920's of was a g80 and g50 even, not a g3. Why the gas lightning?
At the south pole, this intriguing phenomena is referred to by locals as the "other" northern lights.
Now that is a question I’ve been pondering for years! I guess if there was more populated landmasses near the South Pole, it would be more known? Or possibly called southern lights?
I'm from NZ and laughed out loud at this! Thanks for remembering there is an entire other pole out there.
@@fishtank9521 it is called southern lights, or Aurora Australis to be specific
It is called the southern lights
? Southern Lights - the Aurora Australis, apparently.
How come no one is talking about our magnosphere weakening? The poles are moving and causing the magnosphere to weaken. That is why we see the Aroras in such low attitudes! Suspicious Observers on CZcams!
You do realise that was a BBC production.
i like your take on that you could well be right
Pseudoscience
@@bentucker2301 What is ?
@@TheDAT9 everything that suspicious observers posts. It's a doomsday cult
Was supposed to be seen in UK the other day however, I didn't see it.
It was Friday night when we could see it I am in southern West Midlands and I saw it people couldn’t see it but they could when they took a photo of it
@@justinwilson3922 I found out to late, missed it on Saturday and went out at 12 to 01 middle of the night on Saturday in homes of seeing it but nope
They rarely look like this without a camera. A camera picks up much more light than our eyes can. Often it can be mistaken for clouds, white/grey. Sometimes tinged with green and pink. Even without the color, they were swirling and pulsing overhead.
@@WATCHINGTHEWATCHERS well the earths magnetic poles are switching so the earths magnetic field is weakening so more events like what happened on Friday night will happen a lot more often I mean multiple times over the next 16 years I mean multiple times
@@justinwilson3922 When You say switching, You mean north pole becomes sounth pole? Wouldn't that create problems for technology?
Surprised they did not try to blame climate change like they do with everything else
Just wait for part 2.
We must be taxed immediately to prevent it.
Have they blamed Trump yet? Will he be charged for solar flares next? Maybe this will finally be the one that sticks?
I used to live in the north woods, and was economicly pushed out so the state park,and rich people from the outside world could take the indigenous people out. Most went to the city or whatever. I drove the lower 48 and Canada then when Dad died, bought my own house in Florida. I'm still there but would trade for a warm shack and a big stash of dty goods in the forest again. Beautiful colors in the sky. The Earth is Fantastic and just Awesome.
Do they move fast or slow?
Auroras can do both. Friday/Saturday’s storm had both slow moving auroras and then later on fast moving and pulsating colors.
Even visible in Poland last day. I never seen solar lights but I wonder why they become visible here.
Solar activity increase.
@@valiatus6719 thank you😊
Reminds me water nations in Avatar
No mention of our magnetic shield’s weakening or it’s movement towards reversal..? Bbc, that’s not like you to tell half a story… is it?
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We'll see in 2 weeks if the sunspot got larger
Hmm. Background music too overpowering. Makes a lot of the Scandinavian english unintelligible. 😕
The Finnish languages (Suomi and Sámi) are not Scandinavian; they are Finno-Ugric. They are beautiful to hear, and quite musical, especially Sámi.
Good thing the Swedish chef wasn't narrating. " Dee herf de boor, boork boork boork!"
Magnetic is field is down almost 30%. We have only a few years left.
Want to see the northern lights holding Brians hand
One word - Nibiru
we were Lucky
❤❤❤❤
Someone said they dreamt that after some strong northern lights there would be a tsunami very very big waves.
I dreamt I won the lottery.
the whole us saw northen ligth
Auroras will gradually become more intense until what looks like molten steal pours from the heavens and supersonic firestorms engulf the planet. Welcome to the arrival of the golden age.
Nobody will be alive to witness it.
'molten steal'
When they can be seen at the equator, the grid goes down and stays down. By 2040, the magnetic field will be less than 50 percent. We're currently at 65 percent. At that time, the magnetic poles will meet over the Indian Ocean and the magnetic pole shift will happen. Most people won't survive the first year of the power outage.
I hope you are right
Fan fiction
It was Haarp, not the northern lights. That's why they could see it in America, which is impossible.
I’m in Minnesota, USA and over the 22 years I lived in the country away from light pollution, I witnessed the N. Lights many times during the winters. It’s not HAARP. The recent past weekend when so much of the world experienced them the Earth was hit by 8 big CME’s (solar flares). That and our weakened magnetic field is what caused the lights to be seen so far south - or north for the southern hemisphere.
I don't see why people make such a big deal out of this. It's just some light. Calm down.
U r depressed
Same tho
Calm down😂 most people are
Calm but the Atmosphere is growing weaker by the day
@@reecemckinnon6307 good
Soo beautiful it msy in Sweden I can tell by clothes .
Finland.
Nothing about the weakening magnetic field that is actually causing the aurora penetration. Thanks bbc for the malinformation.
yeah I was waiting for them to explain. Cause yes it IS weakening and its terrifying
@@lisarowalt5537 why is itva bad thing
Hardly misinformation
@@bentucker2301 malinformation by omission. Thanks you very much.
Thank you random stranger on the internet, I'm going to trust everything you say 👍
Was this somehow supposed to be educational? The reason I ask is you didn't even touch on why we are seeing Aurora's further south in the northern hemisphere and further north in the southern hemisphere. And the answer to that is the Earth's weakening magnetic field. What used to take a lot of energy from the Sun, doesn't take as much energy now to impact the Earth. If we're going to teach people, let's give them reality because just giving them half the story is, not okay.
man what a fluff piece didn't have hear them talk about "Why the Northern Lights could get more intense" ffs
Nic3 But soon everything is shutdown😢
So....why every 11 years ?
For me its been happening every year for the last few years one time you would never see the northern lights in the north of the uk you would have to travel to norway
why go all the way to Finland? You can go to Mexico these days to see the Aurora...mainstream media (or "the clown show" if you listen to a suspiciously observant channel) seems to ignore the real reasons why auroras are intensifying
2:24
"Extraterrestrial" ... Interacting with terrestrial
There sure are ALOT of 0bservers here!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
look up "earth's pole shift"
Just the sun prepping for BTS return and their away trip before going public as the OT7 again ;)
First in my bucket list ❤
Someone needs to get a life
I've seen them several times in Minnesota, but none like this. Well, none that I took time to admire. There was a big Aurora event in 1991. I was incredibly overtired, and thought the bright colorful lights I was seeing were a trick of my eyes, so I continued my drive home and went to bed. If only I had known what it was!
Without that magnetic field life wouldn't be possible. What a beautiful thing.......
Is this spiderwoman ?
The earth mag field is weakening. Auroras more intense and at lower latitudes for the same sun energy... not good. This is what's heating the planet.
Haarp not responsible in the increased aurora ?
No.
@ivandubinsky1857 are you sure lol seems to be alot of people just now raving about the 8th to the 10th auroras happen to be on some post HAARP posted about they doing test thise days. Coincidence or fake news ?
no stop it
No. HAARPS reach is a few hundred miles from their testing facility. The earliest written description of the northern lights is from 957 BC. There are also cave paintings from tens of thousands of years ago thought to depict the northern lights
@@alasdairadam3725 so are you saying HAARP can't be responsible to cause Aurora borialis the be intensified ?
its scary to think mass extinctions in the past could well be down to this pole shifting phenomena
Caused by passing through the tail of a comet. Immanuel Velikovsky's explanation in the 70s.
When the angels of the north take mushrooms.
Enjoy it while it lasts, catastrophic times are coming
S.O
That is all.
Auroras are what angels look like dancing.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Aurora's are your earth burning into solar galactic fire 🔥 you're my favourite human 😋🫒
I like to think it is Mother Nature, but poetic, nonetheless.
@@samsmom1491 I like to think it's Arthur Browne screaming about your most blatant and inevitable end 🫒😋☮️
It was kind of like when you look at clouds and find pictures. A lot of us got pictures that looked like a phoenix!
@@katstorm13 we should make love and listen to death from above xc
Yes Earths magnetic field is weakening fast, that with the magnetic pole reversal....fun times....but man made climate crisis 😆 $$$$
exactly , well they need the money to finance underground bunkers for the rich and chosen ...
We’re all gonna die
Could? They are already more intense and thats because of the decreasing magnet field of earth. Duh!
Our magnetic field is rapidly weakening, that's why aurora are increasingly visible at lower lattitudes.
Because the plasma apocalypse is coming
The Simpsons said this
There's a Johnny Cash song about all this, I think it's called 'the ring of fire' 😁 see you near T
Wrong
@@MaekarManastorm no mate it's a song, it's not wrong 🙄
What a lot of BS, not a word about the declining magnetic field what is causing this. BBC at it's best...🤣
It's being caused by a solar storm, not a declining magnetic field..
@@alibader2171 yeah right... Normally a storm this size would never cause this effect, it's only a X5.8 remember
Hey man, good luck replying to comments calling you dumb or something, people following these channels will never do they own research.
They didn't forget to mention the declining magnetic field, they deliberately didn't mention it, which makes the video misinformation. Typical BBC. Last place on earth go get your news and especially scientific information.
@@cokvanessen3331 It actually detected a magnitude of 8.79 instead from the X-Class Solar Flares that was measured at 16:50 UTC time and keep in mind that a X8.79 is worse than a X5.8
galactic current sheet
Clickbait! First part of the video is about reindeer’s. They just using the recent events of northern lights to get more views 😂
This is prophesied and will soon happen when the magnetic shield is no more:
Revelation 16:8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was allowed to scorch people with fire.
We have more nothern lights from weaker solarflares because our magnetic field is declining deu to earths magnetic pole shift. This is also your climate change answer.
The peak of solar storms will be near January 2026 or so. The show is great until then. Keep looking up,lol.
I wonder if us humans are responsible for increased solar activity as well?????
It must be that we are doing something to the Sun as well😉😉🤪
No mention of the weakening magnetic field>? just the agenda talking points.
I still miss the real explanation why are the light brighter, more frequent and seen farther away from the north pool?........ Yes I miss the information over the declining magnetic field of earth and the shifting of the pools. Why this is happening and what's ahead!
The magnetic poles are shifting, why is no one talking about this? As this happens our magnetic sphere weakens and makes us more vulnerable to emp
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Congratulations 🎉
@@dipakgosain THANK YOU!!!!
Oh look, indigenous white people on BBC, how unusual.
Flippin' Brexit
It's actually a light show created by the SanTi. We should all be thankful they still allow this, especially in this economy.
pole shift ahead
Will this kill us?
@@CmdSodaI'm sorry to say this; it's an extinction-level event. Enjoy your time with your loved ones. We have another 25 years at the most.
No Fear. Eyes Open.
Be well.
@@zareh805 Thank you for clarification. If it happens then so be it. God is in my heart always.
pole shift
Re: the title...
Climate change of course 🙄
As usual the propaganda machine fails to point out the underlying mechanisms of increased aurora sightings.
A bad patch to be travelling through..
Singular = PhenomenON (not phenomena). BBC standards decline.
Isn't their lights down south? Do they happen on more than one occasion?
Phenomenon
🎼 di deeeee di di da! 🎶
(Couldn't resist 😉)
OK. Correct - but picky. 😐
@@DC-wt2vi Fuzzy Bear says: Fun-neee!
@@Etheral101 there are auroras at both the north and south pole all of the time. It's when storms from the sun are stronger and more frequent, that we are able to see the lights further away from the polar regions. The southern lights are called Aurora Australis, the northern lights are Aurora Borealis
Aurora borealis and Aurora Australis are being created artificially using HAARP technology 📱, including the recent activity from the 🔟th to the 13th of May. 😂😂😂😂😅😅😂😅😅