December 2021

December 2nd

Guests / Country: 4 guests from Germany.
Weather Tromsø: Cloudy / haze.
Destination / weather: Grøtfjord / part clear / haze.
Aurora activity: 7/10.
Aurora show: All over, far south, but weak except one great show with two colors dancing. Curtains, curls, spikes and a half corona.
Tour km: 80.
Tour hrs: 6.
Space show: One huge orange fireball

December 3rd

Guests / Country: 8 guests from Germany, Spain and UK.
Weather Tromsø: Clear.
Destination / weather: Kvalsundet / clear.
Aurora activity: 9/10.
Aurora show: All over, far south, curtains, spikes, curls and dancing in three colors, for the naked eyes and on camera.
Tour km: 70.
Tour hrs: 5.

It`s not often I am doing a short chase like this, but my guests was happy and the activity was fading out, after it was starting already at 3 pm this afternoon... so, please don´t forget to lift your head when you`re walking in the city... maybe she`s dancing above you...

December 4th

Guests / Country: 8 guests from Germany, Scotland/Denmark and UK.
Weather Tromsø: Clear.
Destination / weather: Kattfjordeidet / Sommarøy / clear.
Aurora activity: 4/10.
Aurora show: Several bands across the sky, curtains, curls and spikes. Two colors on camera.
Tour km: 110.
Tour hrs: 6,5.
Space show: One green fireball.

December 6th

Guests / Country: 6 guests from Germany, Spain and Belgium/France/Norway.
Weather Tromsø: Clear.
Destination / weather: Kaldfjord / Grøtfjord / clear.
Aurora activity: 5/10.
Aurora show: Several bands all over the sky, spikes, curls, curtains and two colors dancing, visible for your naked eyes. And a small corona.
Tour km: 80.
Tour hrs: 7.

Tonight`s show begin already at 4 pm and the best show was probably between 4.30-5.30... one hour before I began my chase...
And the viewing for the chase it was best in the beginning, and then it came with little stronger a couple of times during the evening...

December 9th

Guests / Country: 9 guests from Marocco, Germany, Spain and UK.
Weather Tromsø: Clear / haze.
Destination / weather: Dåfjord / clear / haze.
Aurora activity: 1/10.
Aurora show: A couple of faint bands low on the north sky, spikes, curtains. Three colors on camera.
Tour km: 140.
Tour hrs: 7.

After a great autumn with lovely Aurora activity then we got one of these nights, with very slim activity... but, that happens some nights, so clear sky is never an guarantee for see Lady Aurora dance...

I think my guests deserve something better, so my best offer is to give them an 50% discount for the next night... if there`s seats available...

December 10th

Guests / Country: 4 guests from Spain, Malaysia and Norway.
Weather Tromsø: Cloudy.
Destination / weather: Senja south / cloudy / haze / clearing up from south.
Aurora activity: 2/10 (7/10 above clouds..?).
Aurora show: Just some green in cloud holes and through a thin cloud layer.
Tour km: 390.
Tour hrs: 9.
Space show: One green Geminid fireball.
Wildlife: One fox and two moose.

It´s pity... when the forecasted clear sky is delayed... it should be clear sky from 10 pm, but it didn´t showed up before at midnight, and one hour earlier it was a great Aurora show... above the clouds..

December 11th

Guests / Country: 8 guests from Germany and Tunisia/France.
Weather Tromsø: Clear / haze.
Destination / weather: Dåfjord / clear / haze / cloudy.
Aurora activity: 4/10.
Aurora show: Several bands across the sky, curls, spikes and curtains.
Tour km: 140.
Tour hrs: 6,5.

December 16th

Guests / Country: 4 guests from UK, France and Germany.
Weather Tromsø: Cloudy / rain.
Destination / weather: Balsfjord / Skibotndalen valley / part clear.
Aurora activity: 4/10.
Aurora show: Several bands on the north sky, spikes, curls and curtains. A short moment of 3 colors dancing, visible for your naked eyes.
Tour km: 290.
Tour hrs: 7,5.

This is the reason why I never canceling a chase cause a bad weather forecast... since you never knew what the clouds will do...

And the weather forecast this week for this Thursday evening was not funny reading, but then it shows an opening, so I went there with my guests from France, Germany and UK, and got surprised that it was so wrong..????

On the way out from the city we needed to take an unplanned stop, since we suddenly had clear and Aurora on the sky... and then we continued to the planned stop short distance before the finnish border...

At midnight the bad weather with clouds, rain and snow was back, so we returned to the city with four happy guests, who didn`t beleive they should get an Aurora experienced tonight...

December 19th

Guests / Country: 6 guests from Germany, China and Brasil.
Weather Tromsø: Clear.
Destination / weather: Ramfjord / Balsfjord / Takvatnet / clear / cloudy / part clear.
Aurora activity: 7/10.
Aurora show: All over, far south, curtains, spikes, curls, corona and 3 colors dancing, visible for your naked eyes.
Tour km: 245.
Tour hrs: 7.

What a beautiful Full Moon Aurora show we got tonight!

But, it got little tricky when the clouds suddenly arrived in from NW on the beautiful clear sky we had, so this went into a real Aurora Chase, where we had to escape from the tick cloud belt...

At the same time it was building up good activity on the south sky, so we had to stop several times (5) for not miss anything...

At the end, the clouds passed us too fast, so I decided to stop... relax... and hope for the best... and then; the sky cleared up, just in time for the evening best show..

December 26th

Guests / Country: 12 guests from Serbia, France, Spain, Norway and United Arabic Emerate.
Weather Tromsø: Cloudy / snow.
Destination / weather: Skibotndalen valley / part clear.
Aurora activity: 3/10.
Aurora show: Several bands across, but faint, spikes and curls.
Tour km: 250.
Tour hrs: 7,5.

December 27th

Guests / Country: 11 guests from Germany, Italy, Norway and USA.
Weather Tromsø: Clear.
Destination / weather: Kattfjordeidet / Grøtfjord / clear / haze.
Aurora activity: 7/10.
Aurora show: All over the sky, curls, spikes and two colors dancing curtains.
Tour km: 80.
Tour hrs: 5,5.

It was a early show tonight which already started around 5 pm.
So, after a great show at Kattfjordeidet valley where we got the good show we drove to Grøtfjord where we relaxed on the beach around the campfire with hot drinks and sweet snacks, including my homemade Christmas cake.

December 28th - Private Aurora Chase Dinner

Guests / Country: 4 guests from Germany.
Weather Tromsø: Clear.
Destination / weather: Skarsfjord / clear / haze.
Aurora activity: 4/10.
Aurora show: A couple of bands on the north sky, spikes and two colors on camera.
Tour km: 95.
Tour hrs: 6,5.

December 29th

Guests / Country: 12 guests from Norway, Spain, India and China.
Weather Tromsø: Cloudy.
Destination / weather: Skibotndalen valley / haze.
Aurora activity: 2/10.
Aurora show: A couple of bands across, visible through a thin cloud layer.
Tour km: 265.
Tour hrs: 6,5.

December 30th - Private Aurora Chase Dinner

Guests / Country: 4 guests from Germany.
Weather Tromsø: Cloudy / snow.
Destination / weather: Kvanndalen, Bjerkvik / part clear.
Aurora activity: 0/10.
Aurora show: No activity!
Tour km: 435.
Tour hrs: 9.

Not the most sexiest location for tonight chase, but this was the place where we found clear sky 220 km south of Tromsø... in a valley by the power station, 17 km north of Narvik city.

After a great autumn and four month of chasing it ended the year with a quiet sky... no Aurora activty when we finally found clear sky, and on the return we had clear sky the last 120 km to the city... but, noting.

Tonight`s best show was probably between 8-9 pm, but then all guides was inside the cloudy and snowy weather...