Hey Chris, great video! I did always wonder about this. By the way, when you said "Soviet" submarine tunnels, did you mean "Nazi"? I don't think the USSR had anything to do with Norway, even in WW2.
@@Jaxie32 down south (Cornwall), mornings are usually really pretty and sunny. late afternoons and nights are horrible and (often icy) rainy. that's where it's at.
"We were experiencing some of the problems the extreme weather was causing..." *shows what looks like a few centimeters of snow* Oh you sweet innocent Englishman....
Antti Björklund In the southern US we have a phrase “Bless his heart.” Pretty much the same sentiment. I would just die, it was 28 degrees C today, I broke out the shorts and flip flops today.
@@ChrisinOSMS Yeah, and I've heard people in England complain that 28 is too hot… just last year, in fact. A few months later, I was in the suburbs of Sydney, and it got to 50°C.
I remember seeing the northern lights when I was younger, probably 4 or 5. I was in Lapland and it was the night before my parents wedding and me and my older sister spent hours staring at them. It was such a magical experience that I will never forget💛
Why hasn't the BBC picked you up to make content for them??? The quality of your content and delivery are absolutely perfect for educational content, especially for children and teens (and adults who remain "young at heart.")
Hi Half-Asleep Chris, You may have done this already very briefly but I think it would be mighty interesting if you made a bts video about your stop motion, your videos always display such clear effort and I can only imagine how long they take to make! Great content as always, ~from a loyal viewer :) sending love
This is a very cool video. I would definitely recommend this to my friends. I've been watching your channel for more than a year now and i always can't wait for another video to come out . Thanks Chris for all the entertainment you've given me.
As someone who lives in the equator seeing these whites scenery is really fascinating! We either got rain that is too hot and humid or scorching sun that is both hot and dry
Here in Greenland, we have an old folklore about Northern Lights that says the souls playing with whale skull and when children were out playing at late night, the Northern Light will descend and take their head and play with it instead. When I was a kid, we used to whistle to the Northern Lights to make them move, somehow they move and getting bigger, the longer and louder you whistle and we believed that they do descend and we run back home.
Looks like a great trip. I am in Canada and when I was a kid, like 10 or 12, the conditions were right one night in the winter that the Northern Lights could be seen as far south as Toronto. It was a wondrous sight and I hope to see them again. But, I must say, although you are not use to conditions as seen in your video, in my region of Canada this is the norm for winter. A few times we had a foot of snow and temperatures of -30 C were not uncommon. I love your videos and keep them coming. And, oh yes, our lovely Canadian money gets cold then too. LOL
I lived in Fairbanks, Alaska in the US for 3 years and the best time to see the northern lights is in August when it is starting to get dark again. The green ones are beautiful, but the red and purple ones are spectacular! 👍
I know a doctor from Fairbanks Alaska she moved to here in India this year in 3 years she’s moving back to Alaska her husband doesn’t even live with her he lives in New York City
I think seeing "amputation required" spelled out in Scrabble tiles really fulfilled some part of my life I didn't know existed. Also this video cemented my need to go to Tromsø and then north to Svalbard sometime soon.
I love this episode. I used to see lovely, colorful, dancing northern lights in Northern Minnesota when I was a kid. Not as beautiful as I’ve heard northern Norway can display, but amazing to my siblings and I. Thank you!
7:35 - They're usually only green now because of pollution changing the composition of the atmosphere; they used to be all sorts of colors before but that's rare now. :-\
The colours are due primarily to Oxygen and Nitrogen at different levels in the atmosphere being excited depending on the solar activity level. The Oxygen/Nitrogen content of the atmosphere hasn't changes all that much. You only tend to see colours other than green when activity levels are high meaning that these additional excitation are bright enough. In addition, human eyes have their peak sensitivity around the green area of the spectrum, especially in scoptic vision (i.e. night vision), so you are much more sensitive to the green emissions in the aurora than for other colours. Even if the other colours are present, they will be much more difficult to see unless they are exceptionally bright. Faint aurora will likely always appear green due to this biological fact as the other colours simply lie in areas that our eyes are not sensitive enough to detect. This is a video I took in Reykjavik a couple of years back. There were plenty of purple, pink, red and yellow colours mixed in with the green (and it looks like this to the eye). th-cam.com/video/eQj5HYevP7c/w-d-xo.html
Happy you enjoyed your trip, would love to see the lights myself. I always forget how mild it is in the winter in England, -20 Celsius is -4 Fahrenheit, sadly get that every year or worse.
When he said -6 degrees, i was like "dang thats cold" and then i realized it was Celsius, and winters here often get there. Great video btw, always wanted to see the northern lights!
Thanks for another great video from you two Chris. My wife and I are always looking forward to see it when a new one arrives. Yes the Northern Lights look quite different up in Tromsø than what we can see here 2-4 times a year from Northern Denmark, which is usually only a narrow band of the green color at the bottom of the horizon. The green color occurs when the charged particles of the sun hit an oxygen atom. I know it is also possible to see the Northern Lights down in Southern England a rare time, but i think it is incredibly rare.
-20 is nothing here in Canada but this is one of the best videos I have ever watched and made it one of my life goals to go to Tromso in Norway to watch the Northern Lights and Orcas. Thank you Chris
Awesome video, and glad you mentioned the different levels of aurora :D Back when I was in Lappland, we also only saw the "normal" ones you had photos of on the first days (and were kind of dissapointed) but a few days later the big ones came around and it was sooo magical, just like on the photos
Thank you Chris, for inspiring us to go to Tromso! It was a fantastic vacation. We've seen the nortern lights! And yes the pictures are beautiful. Thanks from Marc, Michel, Matthijs, Viviane and Jan Thijs from Holland.
I've now seen them in Iceland where they were the most magical 5 hour vivid, swirling dance I've ever seen. Even with the naked eye they were extraordinary!! So very bright and vivid! Then ironically I just returned from Tromsø myself over Christmas. It was almost as magical there as well. A night I'll never forget as a photographer ...
Wow this video was a full on adventure! I don’t know why I love your videos but they are so entertaining and I love them! They’re all like mini adventures and OMG those waves would TERRIFY me
I’m from the middle part of Sweden close to the mountains and we often have northern lights and especially when it’s colder than 15-C. One Christmas in 2018 we had one of those really bright one you see on those postcard like it was super bright green and dancing. I often forget how lucky I am to see them a couple of times every year
Hi Chris am Fredrik from Norway and i think its super cool that you have been to Norway. I found your youtube channel Just a half a week ago and i abselutly love your videos. I wish i cuod vissit England but am just 13 years old at the moment.
I live in the tropics... by choice. I was born in a temperate clime. But last night, I had to put on a little blanket and socks to keep me warm. Two nights per year that happens. Tonight is one of them and watching all that miserable weather made me feel twice as cold as normal!
I seen the Northern lights from Belfast N Ireland a few years ago, they were faint but definitely recognisable. There was something unusual that year that brought them a lot further south than usual. It was probably five years ago.
That was just delightful. I've always kind of wanted to visit Tromsø and see the lights. As a Canuck the weather's pretty close to our "bad" winter weather (we will get -20C for several days a few times each winter) so that wouldn't be a problem. (I've already got the penguin outfit!!) Maybe some winter when things get calmer.
The submarine tunnel is an old base built by Norway. It's called Olavsvern and could house several submarines. It got sold and purchased by different Norwegians and was ordered in the first place by Norway under NATO
Hey Chris, great video! I did always wonder about this. By the way, when you said "Soviet" submarine tunnels, did you mean "Nazi"? I don't think the USSR had anything to do with Norway, even in WW2.
Ah my bad. I believe they were built during the Cold War, to help fight the threat of the Soviets. Google "Olavsvern"
@@HalfAsleepChris Thanks! So it used to be anti-Soviet; now it's been rented out by the Russians. Crazy!
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@@HalfAsleepChris did you just eat pizza with a fork?
I don't think anybody's ever called England sunny before.
England sunny? A hahahaha such a funny *JOKE*
Oh Cool Englands Sunny Now Tell Me The Actual Wheather There
@@Jaxie32 cloudy/rainy
@@Jaxie32 down south (Cornwall), mornings are usually really pretty and sunny. late afternoons and nights are horrible and (often icy) rainy. that's where it's at.
well i suppose after spending 20+ hours per day in darkness England is quite sunny and the weather is quite mild here.
"We were experiencing some of the problems the extreme weather was causing..." *shows what looks like a few centimeters of snow*
Oh you sweet innocent Englishman....
Antti Björklund In the southern US we have a phrase “Bless his heart.” Pretty much the same sentiment. I would just die, it was 28 degrees C today, I broke out the shorts and flip flops today.
Yeah, I kind of giggled too when I heard that.
@@ChrisinOSMS Yeah, and I've heard people in England complain that 28 is too hot… just last year, in fact. A few months later, I was in the suburbs of Sydney, and it got to 50°C.
Wow! That’s hot. We usually see 37-38 in the summer on a regular basis where I live.
Aah, come over here to northern Alaska.... that’s extreme weather
"-20°C is freezing cold"
Me: laughs in finnish
'course, properly speaking, anything from zero down is 'freezing' cold by definition, so there's that...
@@laurencefraser yep, 0 to - is ice
Finland doesn't exist
I have a aunt living in Finland. I visit her once a year. I once experienced -30°C when I was 1.
they says it -20
Me : laughs in sami
I remember seeing the northern lights when I was younger, probably 4 or 5. I was in Lapland and it was the night before my parents wedding and me and my older sister spent hours staring at them. It was such a magical experience that I will never forget💛
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That sounds lovely
Chris is the only guy with a cabinet filled with scrabble letters
He should do a behind the scenes of how he does all his editing
Lewis White lol
@@clementinethemoth9247 actually, he did! It's in a Q&A video
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That’s everyone that owns a scrabble set
In Iceland we get northern lights all the time, I just have to go into my garden
Is it cold in "Ice"land?...heh...
I'm so envious. In person how much to the lights move? The video clips I've seen make them seem lively. How much slower do they move really?
@@maxximumb they move really slow
@@almVancouver it's cold from september-may
@@MistySunsets yeah it's great here but way more expensive than other places in Europe
It's cool to see the orcas up close like that. The Northern Lights are awesome
Bolm Solm Rolm Tolm Joxè Fay Latigs Folm.
I've actually seen the northern lights,trust me, they look as good as in the photos
It looks better than in camera.
@@Tapanitseini Yeah
Damn I'm jealous
Yeah kinda but in real life REAL LIFE is difrent than a camera well the human eyes arenr cameras so they are much much MUCH more difrent
Not my experience. I saw a vague white glow in the sky. But the long exposure photos the tour company put on their website looked wonderful.
Why hasn't the BBC picked you up to make content for them???
The quality of your content and delivery are absolutely perfect for educational content, especially for children and teens (and adults who remain "young at heart.")
Thanks a lot! :)
I agree! his content is great! really good production quality.
Yes I’d love to see a CBBC show get picked up! Maybe make him the next Blue Peter presenter!?
@@HalfAsleepChris U are the best youtuber, I watch your vids everyday!
I live in Norway, and my city is Haugesund!. Hello from Haugesund Chris!
Hallo jeg er fra Bergen
Chris should try to have a vacation in Norway
SITA THE CAT Hei!
jeg er fra oslo. (im from oslo a city in norway)
Hallo fra gjerdrum
Heya Chris! Love your content!
Also first
5:08 I thought that was editing, but you painted your hand! Quality content, I swear!
It might be editing ( or something )
Living pretty much next to Norway (Finland) I can approve of this. I personally think Norway is one of the most beautiful countries in the world!
As a Norwegian, I am honoured!
😄✌️
Yes, New York gets snow too, so I was happy to see this! It reminded me of a snowy winter day.
just an fyi for everyone.. Penquins are south of the equator.
-20C
Me: laughs in Canadian.
Where in Canada do live?
Me an American: what’s a Celsius
Agree, at -37°F when I saw the lights last month in. North Pole, Alaska
Pictures dont do them justice. They are beautiful.
Yup,I live in Calgary it’s that temperature in spring
In a small town in the northern Canadian archipelago the record cold was set at -66 C.
Hi Half-Asleep Chris, You may have done this already very briefly but I think it would be mighty interesting if you made a bts video about your stop motion, your videos always display such clear effort and I can only imagine how long they take to make!
Great content as always,
~from a loyal viewer :)
sending love
You're in luck. He did a Q&A about this, th-cam.com/video/2K0D7kQU7TA/w-d-xo.html
This is a very cool video. I would definitely recommend this to my friends. I've been watching your channel for more than a year now and i always can't wait for another video to come out . Thanks Chris for all the entertainment you've given me.
Thanks a lot!
That’s cool
Ha, cool. N-ice pun
Chris, have you got/seen one of the Canadian two dollar coins with the glow-in-the-dark Aurora Borealis?
I've seen pictures - it's so cool!
@@HalfAsleepChris I have a few of them! Would love to send you one!
Wow! I would love to see a video about that!!!
Half-Asleep Chris yup I have 2!
I absolutely love your videos! Especially the amazing stop motion. Keep up the good work, and remember that so many people love your videos!
Even when your trips don't go well, the videos are lovely. 🙂
Thanks a lot!
As someone who lives in the equator seeing these whites scenery is really fascinating! We either got rain that is too hot and humid or scorching sun that is both hot and dry
I live in Singapore! Its either sunny or rainy.
I’m Norwegian and you know far more than I ever would! Great video!
I love how chris is always honest
Here in Greenland, we have an old folklore about Northern Lights that says the souls playing with whale skull and when children were out playing at late night, the Northern Light will descend and take their head and play with it instead.
When I was a kid, we used to whistle to the Northern Lights to make them move, somehow they move and getting bigger, the longer and louder you whistle and we believed that they do descend and we run back home.
Looks like a great trip. I am in Canada and when I was a kid, like 10 or 12, the conditions were right one night in the winter that the Northern Lights could be seen as far south as Toronto. It was a wondrous sight and I hope to see them again.
But, I must say, although you are not use to conditions as seen in your video, in my region of Canada this is the norm for winter. A few times we had a foot of snow and temperatures of -30 C were not uncommon.
I love your videos and keep them coming. And, oh yes, our lovely Canadian money gets cold then too. LOL
I lived in Fairbanks, Alaska in the US for 3 years and the best time to see the northern lights is in August when it is starting to get dark again. The green ones are beautiful, but the red and purple ones are spectacular! 👍
I’ve in Fairbanks for 6
I know a doctor from Fairbanks Alaska she moved to here in India this year in 3 years she’s moving back to Alaska her husband doesn’t even live with her he lives in New York City
This is why I really want to see the Northern lights
Same.
Mee too. =D
I think seeing "amputation required" spelled out in Scrabble tiles really fulfilled some part of my life I didn't know existed.
Also this video cemented my need to go to Tromsø and then north to Svalbard sometime soon.
"I’m talking -20C or even colder!" Laughs in Canadian who spent all of her childhood recesses on the school playground at -25/-30 with windshield 😂
Windchill tho
In Finland we have same thing :D
Northern North American gang (I’m for the midwestern US more specifically the colder states)
Sunny old england - had a good laugh - but its all about the point of view
I’ve always wanted to see an Orcas!!😁 The Northern Lights are soooo cool and I wish I could see what they actually look like! I love the video!!!❤️
You're videos always manage to calm me down and give my mind a few minutes of peace. Thank you!
Oh remember the days when you could travel to places?
I Wish Britain Had Snow This Year
It's nothing Just about search: weather Experts say about weather 6F° degrees which might be it's first snow.
Watching this while crying, I never realised how comforting your videos are ❤️
Your adventures are absolutely beautiful. Amazing video. As always!
Thanks a lot!
@@HalfAsleepChris I never stop watching you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!××××
The day after tomorrow?
Coincidence? I think not!
The one place that you won't have to worry about the corona virus
Norway has over 1,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus
And Norway is on lock down now anyway.
I love this episode. I used to see lovely, colorful, dancing northern lights in Northern Minnesota when I was a kid. Not as beautiful as I’ve heard northern Norway can display, but amazing to my siblings and I. Thank you!
Hey! I really love your videos! And your cats
You are my favorite youtuber and I support you!
Fun fact:
When your *one* of the first there's no funny comments to read :(
7:35 - They're usually only green now because of pollution changing the composition of the atmosphere; they used to be all sorts of colors before but that's rare now. :-\
The colours are due primarily to Oxygen and Nitrogen at different levels in the atmosphere being excited depending on the solar activity level. The Oxygen/Nitrogen content of the atmosphere hasn't changes all that much. You only tend to see colours other than green when activity levels are high meaning that these additional excitation are bright enough.
In addition, human eyes have their peak sensitivity around the green area of the spectrum, especially in scoptic vision (i.e. night vision), so you are much more sensitive to the green emissions in the aurora than for other colours. Even if the other colours are present, they will be much more difficult to see unless they are exceptionally bright. Faint aurora will likely always appear green due to this biological fact as the other colours simply lie in areas that our eyes are not sensitive enough to detect.
This is a video I took in Reykjavik a couple of years back. There were plenty of purple, pink, red and yellow colours mixed in with the green (and it looks like this to the eye).
th-cam.com/video/eQj5HYevP7c/w-d-xo.html
Absolutely false. Our particulates have nothing to do with colors of the Aurora.
So Cool! DEFINATELY One Of My Favourite Vids!!!!!
Thanks Alex!
I really appreciated knowing that. Explains a lot.
What an adventurous trip!
“ -20 C is freezing cold”
Me: Laughs in Minnesotan
Laughs in canadian
Laughs in all accent.
Love your videos Chris!
The Northern lights are so nice. You're the best youtuber!!!
Happy you enjoyed your trip, would love to see the lights myself. I always forget how mild it is in the winter in England, -20 Celsius is -4 Fahrenheit, sadly get that every year or worse.
5:46 literally made me gasp that looks amazing
Loved this! Absolutely beautiful
When he said -6 degrees, i was like "dang thats cold" and then i realized it was Celsius, and winters here often get there.
Great video btw, always wanted to see the northern lights!
I rlly love how this channel is educational and fun to watch
Very lovely video chris. Once again, well done !
This video is what I needed, it’s so wholesome!
Thanks for another great video from you two Chris. My wife and I are always looking forward to see it when a new one arrives.
Yes the Northern Lights look quite different up in Tromsø than what we can see here 2-4 times a year from Northern Denmark, which is usually only a narrow band of the green color at the bottom of the horizon. The green color occurs when the charged particles of the sun hit an oxygen atom.
I know it is also possible to see the Northern Lights down in Southern England a rare time, but i think it is incredibly rare.
Loved this! So cool watching your adventures! Also really interesting learning about your experience seeing the northern lights.
Thanks a lot!
-20 is nothing here in Canada but this is one of the best videos I have ever watched and made it one of my life goals to go to Tromso in Norway to watch the Northern Lights and Orcas. Thank you Chris
Awesome video, and glad you mentioned the different levels of aurora :D
Back when I was in Lappland, we also only saw the "normal" ones you had photos of on the first days (and were kind of dissapointed) but a few days later the big ones came around and it was sooo magical, just like on the photos
Thank you Chris, for inspiring us to go to Tromso! It was a fantastic vacation. We've seen the nortern lights! And yes the pictures are beautiful.
Thanks from Marc, Michel, Matthijs, Viviane and Jan Thijs from Holland.
Thankyou for showing us.
I've now seen them in Iceland where they were the most magical 5 hour vivid, swirling dance I've ever seen. Even with the naked eye they were extraordinary!! So very bright and vivid! Then ironically I just returned from Tromsø myself over Christmas. It was almost as magical there as well. A night I'll never forget as a photographer ...
another fun and informational video! keep up the good work!
I really enjoyed this!! Thank you!
Thus channel is so pure, I love it so much
Wow this video was a full on adventure! I don’t know why I love your videos but they are so entertaining and I love them! They’re all like mini adventures and OMG those waves would TERRIFY me
Thanks so much for this video, the scenery was amazing, first video of yours I've watched, loved it.
I'm from Minnesota and we get them, sometimes spectacularly. I love my world sometimes!
Living your best life! Cheers to you😻
@Half_Asleep Chris Your videos are the best!😁😁😁
I’m from the middle part of Sweden close to the mountains and we often have northern lights and especially when it’s colder than 15-C. One Christmas in 2018 we had one of those really bright one you see on those postcard like it was super bright green and dancing. I often forget how lucky I am to see them a couple of times every year
Hi Chris am Fredrik from Norway and i think its super cool that you have been to Norway. I found your youtube channel Just a half a week ago and i abselutly love your videos. I wish i cuod vissit England but am just 13 years old at the moment.
The Norwegian fjords are breathtaking and unlike anything anywhere else in the world their scale is unbelievable fantastic video as always 😘
Fabulous Video Chris, Love Your Unique Style ! 👍🏻
Oh my gosh!!! I wish that I could go there You are so lucky and your cats are so cute!!!
Lovin the vids man keep going with the great content
It looks so beautiful out there😍
Yay a new vid I really enjoyed like always love the vids keep doing what your doing
I live in the tropics... by choice. I was born in a temperate clime. But last night, I had to put on a little blanket and socks to keep me warm. Two nights per year that happens. Tonight is one of them and watching all that miserable weather made me feel twice as cold as normal!
The lights look amazing! Wish I could experience them with my own eyes some day...
Always excellent
I saw a orca pod at my batch once. Really nice!
I seen the Northern lights from Belfast N Ireland a few years ago, they were faint but definitely recognisable.
There was something unusual that year that brought them a lot further south than usual. It was probably five years ago.
Visit Iceland during the winter! It’s incredibly amazing and surreal to see the Aurora while soaking comfortably in a Hotpot in the middle of nowhere
That sounds incredible - it's on my list!
That was just delightful. I've always kind of wanted to visit Tromsø and see the lights. As a Canuck the weather's pretty close to our "bad" winter weather (we will get -20C for several days a few times each winter) so that wouldn't be a problem. (I've already got the penguin outfit!!) Maybe some winter when things get calmer.
we spent seven months in south america and we also saw orcas they were bonkers! love your videos 😄
Your experience of the northern lights in Norway was very like mine in Iceland; very cool, just not what we were led to expect.
I really really enjoy your videos. Thank you for sharing :)
I've forgot how beautiful it is here in Norway :)
Lucky to have seen them lots of times in Dundee Scotland
They are beautiful
Chris I was on vacation and I saw your cat video to cheer me up because I missed my cat and I had a fun trip
I went to the northern lights too!So cold but beautiful.
I know the risks of frostbite, but still I'll be going to Tromsø someday. Thanks again for filming/making your great adventures there~ 💌👋
Happy to see you well
The submarine tunnel is an old base built by Norway. It's called Olavsvern and could house several submarines. It got sold and purchased by different Norwegians and was ordered in the first place by Norway under NATO
the last bit of flying with the snow, if i was a pilot it would feel scary every time even tough you got all your computers and instruments.
I love your channel chris! You need 1M subscribers already!
Great video! Keep safe Chris!
I love everything about this video 😍🌌
Thanks so much!
I wish i could travel but i've only been on a plane once but keep traveling. love your videos!
Chris, you do grate videos keep up the grate work