Northern Lights in Arkhangelsk

[claudialc]

I'm trying to find out how often the aurora borealis can be seen from Arkhangelsk. About once a year? A few times a year? Once every few years

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[brune_hilda]

Google says that every year from september to april.
If you read Russian http://tonkosti.ru/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B5_%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8

[lilacsigil]

My brother saw them from there in early-mid January 2015 and everyone said they'd been really frequent that year, a couple of times a week.

[eve_n_furter]

Greetings from 69° North. You can in principle see it any time in the winter when the sky is dark, above the polar circle. In practicality it depends on solar activity: http://www.aurora-service.eu/solar-activity/

The last years there have been a lot of solar activity and we see the Aurora more often than not here (outside Tromsø, Norway). It is predicted that we have reached the peak though and that the activity will be reduced over the coming years.

ETA: If you run this model, you can see it reaching Arkhangelsk last night: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast

[quatorze]

I'd say they would be pretty familiar. I live only a little further up north, and we see them several times a year, of course depending on solar activity. The main thing is that you have to be away from city lights etc to get a good look.

[turbobeholder]

Here - even with YoTubby video results: via DuckDuckGo.