5 Misunderstood Facts About The Northern Lights - Do The Northern Lights Make A Sound?
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- Let's separate myths from facts. Here are 5 misunderstood facts about the northern lights AKA the Aurora. The most popular question on this topic, Do the Northern Lights Make a Sound?
There's a plethora of cultural myths surrounding the Northern Lights but in this video, we explore some of currently popular held beliefs about the Northern Lights and break down fact from fiction.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:31 Number 1: Northern Lights Can Only Be Seen When It's Cold
1:15 Number 2: Northern Lights are Only Visible In Midwinter
2:03 Number 3: Northern Lights are Limited to Only a Few Years Each Decade
4:03 Number 4: You Can't See The Northern Lights When The Moon is Full
4:40 Number 5: Do the Northern Lights Make a Sound?
8:32 Bonus Fact: The Northern & Southern Lights are the Same
10:33 Additional Info
Links
Best Time to See The Northern Lights: • When is the Best Time ...
The Alaska Aurora Cam: www.alaskaauroracam.com
Tour info: www.TheAuroraChasers.com
Sources & Credits
LIES ABOUT THE AURORA HTTPS://WWW.DANGEROUS-BUSINESS.COM/NO...
SPEED OF SOUND AND LIGHT www.gbaudio.co.uk/data/time.htm
Northern Lights sound
www.space.com/16498-northern-...
blog.aurorasaurus.org/?p=385
NASA Videos
Solar Max/Min: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
Unto K. Laine Photo: www.tiede.fi/artikkeli/jutut/...
Spaceweather Graphs & Charts: www.swpc.noaa.gov
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I grew up in North Pole, AK and saw the lights all the time. And my friends can attest to this, but on occasion on very cold, clear, windless nights, when it was a very strong aurora, one could hear them. Like a faint rustling, shimmer, crackle. But, this is the interesting thing: And my friends say the same thing, we were able to hear them much better when we were kids. It is rare when any of us can hear them now, even under the same conditions. But, it is well known to science that kids can hear frequencies that adults cannot. So who knows?
They definitely can hear frequencies adults can’t
How lucky you are! It sounds amazing. 🌎 I'm in Tasmania, Australia and while I know the Aurora Australis CAN be viewed from here, I've never seen it. (Yet) It's on my bucket list!
@@janined5784 ah same...i am from dubai, uae and its been a dream that I have wanted to go to norway or other countries that show/offer the northern lights
Wow. I believe you. That's amazing.
@@SakuraandMizu I hope you get there. Make your dream happen.
They definitely make sound. I've heard it more than once.
You are so lucky
Yes. Lots of people have. th-cam.com/video/HIhiNcXLvxE/w-d-xo.html
How come the influencers don't want us to know this truth? Because I believe it does make sound, but they are putting so much effort into "debunking" this
They do! I've heard them before. A couple dayse ago where I live in Montana. People will argue and doubt, but it is true. I think it's not sound though. I have a feeling that there is an undiscovered ability the brain has to pick up on certain radio waves. Maybe I am crazy. But in strong solar storms it sounds like someone is crinkling tin foil when the aurora is overhead. From farther away it sounds like a hum.
I've heard it more than once. To the point it has woken me from my sleep.
I was convinced that the whole "auroras make sound" thing was a myth, especially after I saw them many times, in Sweden, in Iceland, and in northern Norway.
But then once, I was in a very remote place of the very northern parts of Norway with a guide, and suddenly the auroras showed up. We were excitingly setting up the cameras and there was this weird, continuous sound, like a low soft humming, with a bit of crackling, and I turn to the guide asking "what's that sound?". I just thought that maybe we weren't in a place as remote as I had thought, maybe there's an electric something behind the hill?
He says calm and sure of himself "it's the aurora. That's what makes those sounds. It happens a lot, actually!"
I was so shocked 😆
I have heard them, years ago back in the 1970's when I was up north. After seeing this I now count myself as a very lucky guy. It's something I will never forget and I recommend anyone that can, should go and experience the Northern Lights. And even if you don't hear them, its still an amazing thing to behold.
My father-in-law grew up in the far north of Sweden in Wilhelmina, Norrland. He told me he heard it a number of times when it was powerful and directly overhead. I don’t think at all that he would lie about that.
@@thomasfholland Same conditions as when I heard it in northern Canada. They do make a sound.
Yup heard them too in Canada, Northern Saskatchewan (North of La Ronge, Sk) mid winter in late 70s. The lights seemed to hang very very low, first time I've ever seen this, like you could almost reach out and touch them and there was this eerie sound like a static hinge crackling with little ticks slowly paced out at about 1.8Khz to 2.4Khz and almost in time with the motion of the lights. Was very startling as I've seen them all the time in those days but that was the first time and last.
Yes lots of people have heard them
th-cam.com/video/HIhiNcXLvxE/w-d-xo.html
You're not alone. I heard them a couple days ago in Montana.
The aurora was out about ten or twenty minutes ago and there was no one but home awake in my whole neighborhood in Big Lake and it sounded like someone was walking in the snow, there were no people, no animals, nothing, my grandpa woke up and said yeah that’s the aurora for you
I think that is what always spooked me about them. Made me very uncomfortable despite being so beautiful.
Hearing them is cool, but FEELING them is awesome.
It is a sound I can FEEL more than I can "hear."
The sky ripples like electrified water...just amazing.
Have heard the buzzing sound on Leech Lake in the 70’s and in Ontario shield in 90’s several times
This is a great video! I was born in Alaska and can validate everything he has said. I worked up on the North Slope in 2010 and the lights were out one night so we drove outside of the camp to where it was completely dark and they were amazing. They were dancing all over and I did hear them. It was probably more than -60 degrees and it wasn’t loud by any means but there was sound. It was an incredible experience. Anyway thank you for sharing!
So what was the sound???
That’s pretty cool my dad worked on the north slope
Having lived north of the Arctic Circle for all my life, I've been blessed with hundreds of beautiful aurora nights. I have never heard any sound, but that in itself doesn't mean anything (mostly since I have a significant hearing loss). However, I have discussed the topic with scientists that had a theory about people experiencing sounds that is not possible to record - in the same way that tinnitus is experienced as a sound but can not be recorded. Or sound experienced by bone conduction. That was an interesting idea for a non-scientist like me, and has made me even more curious about the lovely phenomenon.
And also: Beautiful videos! Auroras should be displayed in real-time, not in timelapse videos - just as you did here! You got a new subscriber. :)
Interesting stuff! I definitely learned some new things about the aurora here. Thanks!
I live in Canada and see the northern lights a lot. When u see them, just enjoy them, they’re beautiful ☺️
Awesome. Thanks once again for doing these videos, they are great for folks who are new to Aurora and those of us who have lived in an Aurora zone for decades. I appreciate your tactful approach to the Aurora making sounds. I have lived in Alaska for over 40 years and I think I have only heard the Aurora once. It might not have been the Aurora but a electromagnetic reaction that my body had to the electrical charges in the air so, who knows, we'll have to wait to see what future research shows. All I can say about that night I thought I heard them was that it was a strong show, it was a calm night in the dead of winter with no wind, and I was far away from any large (or small) town.
Thanks Danute. I always appreciate you chiming in. There's certainly a lot more to say about the sounds but I decided I'd better stick to the absolute known info on it. There are many other theories but nothing as well documented as Laine's theory.
Nicely done 👍! I especially like the sound test 😉 with Marketa & the pan!
Thanks Art! Notice her grin at the end? Lol
Great video!
I loved this video. Thank you for the information.
I have heard them chiming. They sound so nice.
04:40 - "The Aurora makes sound", but *not* as pressure waves in the air, but as audible frequency radio waves, in the Very Low Frequency band (VLF), called Dawn Chorus, and it's often resembles to the sound of a flock of birds. It's *not* a myth per se, the myth is that it is a 'sound' that the human ear could hear. The human ear can't directly hear radio waves, obviously, but those waves *can* be easily converted into sound.
That's how I would describe what we heard also. Some crack and snaps mixed in.
Early fall 1990 Northern ND
@@leewerchau1544 - The cracks and snaps are natural signals of storms, lightnings. They can propagate very far in the very low frequency bands.
I know what lightning in the distance sounds like. This was absolutely not that This was very eerie sounding along with the snaps and cracks. Snaps and cracks aren't really a good descriptor.
@@leewerchau1544 - During night time 'spherics' from distant lightnings go through a degree of frequency dispersion, which makes them have a characteristic 'pinging' sound. The 'Eerie' sounds were either 'whistlers' or a 'dawn chorus', I guess.
I had never heard about the sound of the aurora until I heard it myself. And I've heard it several times. And I can see how someone would say it matches the movement of the lights, as the sound and lights both "move" in strange time and are just weird. And regardless of whether it's static electricity and not the sound of the lights themselves there is certainly a sound, and I've never heard anything like it without the aurora. It's the weirdest sound, and living further south now I really miss it.
Thank you for the video. I came to hear what you said about the sound of the Aurora. I am one of those who thinks he has heard it. Having said that, I am willing to accept that I am hearing something else that I am associating with the Aurora. I have been fortunate to have seen the Aurora many times especially when I lived in Saskatchewan. Summer and winter. Usually it is very quiet and an amazing site. One late fall, I was in northern Saskatchewan and went outside to look at the Aurora and I am sure I heard the "crackling" of them as they played across the sky. The issue of the speed of sound is a moot point with regards to hearing them in real time. That would only be the case if the Aurora was short lived. But if it is going on for 30 minutes or more then hearing a swirling crackling does not have to match up exactly with what you are seeing. It would be like trying to associate thunder with a very specific lightning bolt during a storm with many multiple lightning strikes. Having said all of this, I've only heard it once that I have a clear memory of. I have a faint memory of hearing it once in Newfoundland as well but won't verify that. Maybe I'm not actually hearing the Aurora but I was hearing some type of sound, that wasn't there before or after the Aurora. And it seems to have a varying pattern, a wave, that matches the type of flow of the lights. So if it is not the actual Aurora then it is still an interesting acoustic effect that happens during an Aurora and it would be good to know what it is like. Thanks again for the video.
Thank u .,
Definitely going to book with you when I come !!!!❤❤❤
Loved this one!
Thanks Kathy! And thanks for watching.
Again a VERY good and balanced vid about the northern lights.. And yes.. 1992 I witnessed a particularly strong aurora with lots of red.. and we heard the fsint crackling.. like slowly ripping a piece of paper across the sky...
Very helpful
so cool!!!!
I live in Fairbanks Alaska and we have northern lights all the time. They definitely make noise they snap crackle and pop like rice crispies. Just not that loud.
I was fortunate enough to see them once and it was the noise that made me look up. It's amazing that some can't hear them as it was pretty difficult not too hear the crackling and whirling.. The most magicical thing I've ever witnessed.
I loved this video!!!
Thanks ViaOjo!
Looking forward to seeing you guys soon,
It was great to have you along Danny! :-)
Presentation on to point.
The aurora may be happening in a very thin atmosphere, but since it's happening over a very wide area, I think it's plausible that some acoustic energy manages to make its way down to where we can hear it. It might be of such a low frequency (ordinarily) that it could be sensed with instruments more often than with our ears. Scientists at Bell Labs, in New Jersey, could detect the sound of Apollo's Saturn V rocket launches (in Florida), with microphones installed several hundred feet above the ground. (The research was actually funded to detect clandestine nuclear testing.) If I lived anywhere near the auroral zone, I'd love to try such an experiment.
That recording, that you played, that’s what I’ve heard, a few times while watching the northern lights.
The Bonus fact was the best one!! 😊
I live in Tropical North Queensland Australia and often say I have to travel to the cold to see Aurora... ironically the colder states often get much hotter also... but I do have to go to a colder climate to see Aurora... I suspect I'd have seen something if I was here during the Carrington event.. but I'll have to wait for the next big hit to work that out... some seem to think that will be sooner than later
Not quite the Carrington event right now, but your comment has aged beautifully.
I heard it in Bolton Ontario Canada. It sounded like a shimmer. It was awesome!
I so love that northern lights!! its beyond beautiful scene!! I wish i could travel to abit way up north to see, but for now I just watch a 2hr video of aurora borealis and it just so relaxing me..with a specific relaxing music..
Several years ago during a big Aurora event both my wife and I could hear the low roar . There was nothing else around that could make that sound. I don’t think I could hear it anymore as I have hearing loss for low frequencies.
Spent two years living in Fairbanks Alaska in winter. Used to go out when the Northern Lights would light up our apartment. Yes, we could hear them. Like sheets rubbing together. It had to be a calm, clear night, but yes, they were audible. Yes, am aware of the speed of sound and the speed of light, but those sounds would rattle our windows. Great video, thank you.
I would love to know more about this creation of nature🌌
What a great video in a such condensed form. And of course Great photography! Big question for you, my wife keeps “parroting” that the “best” time to see the Aurora is spring and fall equinox. However when questioned on the WHY part and exactly WHAT is “best”…. well I don’t get a very specific response to say it lightly…:(
For the life of me, I have never understood why a small but select part of our population just doesn’t understand those simple Why, What, etc……..that are so crucial to human communication. Can you tell I am so beyond super frustrated over such an elementary issue?? Haha …, oh yea you betcha
I am trying to ask her IF there is a certain time of year AND IF SO, then WHEN is it that the actual number of CME that contacts the earth’s atmosphere is at the greatest frequency and intensity.
Yet all I keep getting is the same canned response but not an actual answer to my specific question which has zero to do with road conditions, how warm it is, amount of hours of daylight/nighttime or all around “pleasant conditions”, and on and on…….. BUT instead the sheer number of auroras that occur regardless of the above conditions which I have repeatedly attempted to, very unsuccessfully, ask. Any knowledge you may be willing to share would be greatly appreciated! Cheers :)))
Sorry for the tinge of frustration……. It runs very long and deep obviously.
My Hubby was stationed in Fairbanks and saw the Northern Lights often... he said they definitely make a "static electricity" like crackling sound....
I saw them in fairbanks and reykjavik. Thinking of them is my happy place. I went to a museum in Fairbanks and they had something called, " Sounds of the Earth" or something like that. It played a recording of the sound of the lights
Agree, have herd an almost buzz in Fairbanks
I've definitely heard it. Once. It was a very calm night about four hours drive into the bush from the small town of Fort St. James central BC Canada. I've seen them quite a few times but the other times I didn't experience any sound.
I’ve heard the Aurora. It cracks and it is amazing. I was young. Around 1968.
What's intriguing is that the people who report the aurora's having a sound is strikingly similar to rare reports of meteors making a sound through the atmosphere way before they should be hearing anything. Both describe it as a faint sizzling sound.
Love the video. I had a question though. I recently introduced my son to the movie Frequency. I actually told him that the story is actually based on some actual stories or cases (possibly hoax) of the Aurora distorting or messing with radio waves to the point that people who using ham radios would actually be in contact with someone or a business that's been gone for years. Pretty much speaking to people from the past or future. Tried to look up a video on this mysterious phenomena as there's usually a video on everything nowadays but I can't find anything. Do you have any knowledge on the whole Aurora and radio wave phenomena?
Hmmmm... It's well documented that solar flares cause Ham Radio blackouts within minutes of sizable solar flares, but I've never heard anything to the effect of changing time. Sounds a bit scifi to us.
@@TheAuroraChasers Thank you for the reply back. Yeah I remember for a while back when I was young hearing about that. Like alot of things, just tall tales and fiction.
I've heard them myself. Just once. Was a crazy level of light dancing. No wind, not even a breeze. We were in a state park laying still on the grass Our entire group heard it.
First time I ever say the lights was in 1966 in Montana, they were not super vivid but I could hear a faint crackling sound, similar to when you pour milk on Rice Krispies. I saw them vividly in Alaska in 2004, but heard no sound. The Alaskans said they heard a rustling sound sometimes.
The younger you are the better you will hear them.
Well, at least aurora makes radio waves, which can be picked with instruments, and that can be turned into sound that humans could hear.. I think. But it's different thing to hear that vs. actually hearing with own ears. I have seen auroras only once, I think it was 2003. I live in southern part of Finland, so it's kinda rare in here to even see.. But definitely didn't have a sound that I could hear.
It would be fairly easy to develop a test. One person with a blinfold on, another person without. when the blinfolded person hears the aurora, see if there is a correlation with the increase in activity. No oohing and ahhing from the person without the blindfold allowed.
I already known this first than this was uploaded
I've lived in Alaska most of my 65 year life and have seen a lot of auroral displays, I've hear the shimmer/crackling noise. I do have a question and think I know the answer, but I'd like a more authoritarian reply: The Northern and Southern Lights also happen during the day, but are not visible due to atmospheric light... true or false? In addition, what causes the colors to vary? They're most often greenish, but they can also be varying shades of blue, purple, red, orange and yellow.
The Northern Lights do make noise. In September of 2003, we did a fly-in fishing trip. We were at a cabin on Scotia Lake, near Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. As we were sitting along the lake later at night, we witnessed both the lights and the sounds coming from them. It was totally awesome and amazing.
I've seen northern lights many times, but only once (in 2016 I believe) there was a sound. The aurora was green, if it matters. The best way I can describe it was that it sounded like a far away train, a hollow singing noise. To be sure and confirm that I wasn't indeed hearing a train, I waited a long time for the "train" to pass - it never did.
Maybe it was a different track
Ham radio operators use the aurora to communicate. The radio waves basically bounce off of the ionized surfaces of the aurora.
I describe the "sound" I hear from auroras as something you dont hear, but feel. Its hertz makes music inside your nervoussystem and your body hear it. 🌌
I grew up in Alaska and have heard them.
Saw and heard it in Nicholas NY. Back in 2000-2001
I think you may have mistaken "we don't know if they make sound" with "we don't know how they make sound". It's been accepted that the northern lights make audible sounds since the research of Carl Strømer about 100 years ago. The physical mechanism behind this sound is not yet understood. This seems to fit the observations of the comment section, including myself (a Swede).
All the years and time I have spent out watching the Auroras I have to say I have not heard them. If they do make sound I would love to hear it.
I'm with ya Greg! Are you back in the area?
Yup. I thought they made sound until I was able to see them myself in Lapland area in Finland. I was expecting a hissing sound for some reason 🤔. An inducted magnetic current isn't sound I should think. I wonder how well their microphones and cables were shielded?
This reminds me of something. Apparently deaf people who have surgery so they can hear again are surprised when they realised the sun doesn't make sound.
I saw some last night, and they did make a sound. It was just a low hum.
Sound waves are pressure waves, so, if there is something compressing them, that could explain why some people hear them.
We heard it says " the ice...melts away "
7:50 I live in Finland and one of my relatives told me that back in 1950 you could definitely hear Northern Lights, because common Finnish winter was half meter of snow, and -30 degree Celsius and below.
Today in capital area of Helsinki with luck you see every 5 years a small light, since its too warm, too much light from big city and such...
Only place to actually see the Northern Lights is Lapland. And i you want to study them lights I suggest living in Lapland.
The sound of the aurora does not originate from the aurora. It originates in the immediate environment of the hearer, most likely from water droplets. I have never heard an aurora but many years ago I heard a meteor. The meteor was very spectacular and the sound was very obvious and immediate which caused me to think that I was seeing a firework very close overhead. The meteor was of course many kilometers up and ended up disappearing over a mountain range. I could not understand why I was able to hear it immediately once I realized what it was. Years later I got my answer. It is a well established phenomenon and has to do with the powerful electromagnetic waves that are generated from the incandescence of the atmosphere. The source of the electromagnetic waves are different for aurora but most likely the same interaction with molecules very close to the hearer.
This! I think this is essentially what Lane was suggesting in his study as well.
How come no one uses this in flat earth arguments. This alone debunks so many of their theories involving the sun, it’s location, and it’s size.
This is the kid from robo cop 2 right ?
Last night. In northeast Pennsylvania. There was an explosion. The sky went black and a white light flash
80 kilometers is 50 miles. 342 meters/sec. is 765 m.p.h.. 1 kilometer is 1/2 mile. 80 kilometers is 50 miles.
Oh yes she did make a sound! I heard it very clearly back in 2014.
I heard and felt them 1 time. It scared me.
I believe they do because it’s a magnet effect due to the light and electromagnetic field. That’s why we see rainbow effects
Where's my comment? I tried posting it 3 times, and it keeps disappearing!
really wish to see with my own eyes to believe
Are the people having good relationships up there, or are they nervous, or just romantics? All the creepy sounds in the sky that are heard from time to time in different parts of the world, where are they coming from, or what is it?
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Its true they always come in the cold, regardless of what he says. It might be called summer but temperatures are low they are like a hot summer or even spring, so its always cold, or atleast a cold night. But there is also the truth that sometimes they show up to be a sign that a Colder time is avoided that may cause trouble on the earth. So if its a warm day and its about to be cold, as a prevention the aurora shows up.
Is that right? 😂 I mean, I guess if you're coming from Florida, 50°F degrees probably does feel cold. 😂
@@TheAuroraChasers No auroras in Florida, except winters if its ever possible.
Seen the lights. Certainly no sound lol.
If my man Bob Ross said he heard the aurora make sounds, then by god, the aurora makes sounds ;) lol
😂 I can't argue with Bob Ross!
Something at least makes a sound during the aurora.
I have personally heard The Northern Lights several times in Alaska. So don’t try to tell me there is no sound with the Lights!
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Me too and I don't even live close to them but I too hear a low feint hum at night
I've heard the sounds of Aurora, they were obvious.
yes you can hear them, but America...like in California you wont even see them...
Yup ancient tec still working tesla was on right track
no delay in sound...clickbait
Clickbait? I mean, if you can show us peer reviewed evidence that this theory is wrong, we're happy to hear it.
Lmao yes it's a well known fact that sound is instantaneous definitely doesn't have to travel distance just magics from the source to your ear
In the end he's using heliocentric theory .why?
Number 1: even locals of the northern regions where is possible to witness such beauty, say so. Because its true. Among the cold days of fall and winter, the colder are by far the best to see a spectacular, dancing, colorful, mindblowing aurora. Even tough can appear any time of the year, the windy and colder days are better. Dont try to say the opposite, please.
I'm sorry to tell you but cold weather has zero impact on conditions happening 60+ miles above the earth. It's just that, as said in the video, we can't see them on cloudy nights. Clouds do tend to raise temps at the ground level. So people tend to associate the cold temps with the best Auroras as a result. But the two are completely unrelated. We've spent 1000's of hours out under the Northern Lights both in Iceland and in Alaska. We'd seen some of the best shows in 40F and at 50 below. P.S. We are locals to the Northern regions. ;-)
Time to go HOME
Where's home?
Mane stop lying 🧐
Got more to contribute? Counter points? Research that might expand our understanding of things? Or you just trolling?
In other words, don't watch faux news.