To see the northern lights, you need a cloudless sky and a bit of luck. That, and a dark and stormy night. Dark, as in as far away from city lights as possible, and stormy in a way not visible to the human eye. You need a geomagnetic storm, to be precise, one that happens high up in Star Trek territory where solar winds whip debris from the sun into a frenzy. When these super-charged particles hit Earth’s upper atmosphere, a meteorological phenomenon called the aurora borealis occurs. The effect, if you happen to be in the right place at the right time, is psychedelic.
I was standing in the snow near the tiny town of Hella
