Sunday, 26 May 2024
Sunday, 26 May 2024
‘In Seattle, typically you have to get out of the city and camp overnight to witness the Northern Lights every year. Somehow I haven’t been able to do that in the past five years. So Aurora Borealis decided to show up at my window. Aurora was visible from all parts of Seattle on the night of May 11 because of a geomagnetic storm and atmospheric conditions. I witnessed it for the first time in my life and was in complete awe,’ Debarchan told My Kolkata
Deeksha Shome, a sustainability enthusiast and graduate student in Sustainable Leisure Management at Vancouver Island University, British Columbia, witnessed the Northern Lights at Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. ‘It was almost 2 in night when we went there as there was less dust and the show was constantly happening above us,’ she said
Sudipta Talukdar, who works with a California-based multinational software company, witnessed a beautiful violet and pink sky at Wayland, Massachusetts, on Sudbury river from around 11.08pm to 11.50pm on Saturday. She described it as a mesmerising, once-in-a-lifetime experience. ‘The colours are simply unbelievable’
‘It was in the news that a geo storm was coming and that the Northern Lights would be visible here but we didn’t take it seriously. We were watching an ice hockey match when a cousin’s wife saw a Facebook post and we were suddenly all charged up,’ Sudipta said. ‘It was my nephew who suggested we go to Sudbury and it was really worth it’
