We talked to a handful of people who have been here for 10-14 days, and hadn't yet had a clear day to see them. We not only had a clear night on our second night, but we happened to have booked a hotel about 20 minutes from the nearest town, so rather than driving 15-20 minutes and sitting in a cold car to try to see the lights, we sat in our warm beds and then wandered on outside and stood in the back yard of the hotel. When we first got back from dinner, we could see a tiny bit of the aurora on the horizon - enough to say we had seen it, but not enough to tell apart from city lights or clouds. We decided to go back in and come out in another hour or so. We came back out to a much bigger show - and I think we picked about the best 45 minutes we could have been out there, because we watched them go from relatively still to a very impressive show. They were colorless (the green is how the photo captures them) but flickering and dancing continually all across the sky. It looks like someone lit a candle over the sky and there's a light breeze - like clouds dancing in the wind like a fire. After or 45 minutes, the dancing had mostly stopped and they had receded - so we were very, very lucky in our timing!
But I know the photos are really the only important part here!
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