September 2022

September 2nd

• Aurora for myself
• No guests booked
  

September 3rd

• Aurora for myself
• No guests booked

September 4th

• Aurora for myself
• No guests booked

September 9th

• Guests / Country: 2 guests from Lebanon.
  
• Weather Tromsø: Cloudy / rain.
• Destination / weather: Njaimmet, Finland / clear.
• Aurora activity: 6/10.
• Aurora show: A short and intensive show. Spikes, curls, and three colors (green, yellow and pink) curtains visible for the naked eyes, and a small corona.
• Tour km: 435.
• Tour hrs: 9.
• Space show: An huge fireball.
• Wildlife: One moose.

It was cloudy again in Tromsø city, but if you knew how we`re working then it`s no necessary to cancel your chase, cause within our 250 km driving range of chasing, we will close to all nights find an better spot.

Therefore Tromsø is one of the world best destinations for Chase the Northern Lights.

We knowledge and experience Aurora Guides knew the microclimates weather conditions, and include our teams good cooperation out along the roads, we will close to all nights find clear sky for you, so you get what you came for; Explore Lady Aurora`s performance.

GuideGunnar`s Aurora Chase has a success rate on 95-98% every season.

This season is my 17. Aurora season, and I have been out there over 1800 nights chasing, so I am the longest running Aurora Guide in Tromsø and Northern Norway.

Welcome to join me ;)

September 12th

• Guests / Country: 3 guests from USA and Israel.
  
• Weather Tromsø: Part clear.
• Destination / weather: Grøtfjord / clear.
• Aurora activity: 1/10.
• Aurora show: Just a couple of faint spikes low on the north sky.
• Tour km: 110.
• Tour hrs: 6,5.
• Space show: One falling fireball.
• Wildlife: 15 reindeers and 2 foxes.

After a great start of this season with several great nights with Northern Lights the last 3 weeks the lady got quiet this night ...

September 13th

• Guests / Country: 5 guests from Australia, USA and Switzerland.
  
• Weather Tromsø: Cloudy.
• Destination / weather: The Magic island of Senja / cloudy / haze / clear.
• Aurora activity: 3/10.
• Aurora show: A couple of bands low on the north sky, curtains and spikes.
• Tour km: 405.
• Tour hrs: 8,5.

September 16th - Private Aurora Chase

• Guests / Country: 6 guests from India.
  
• Weather Tromsø: Cloudy / rain.
• Destination / weather: Andørja / Ramfjordmoen / high clouds / some stars visible.
• Aurora activity: 0/10.
• Aurora show: No activity!
• Tour km: 430.
• Tour hrs: 8,5.

September 17th

• Guests / Country: 11 guests from Thailand, Singapore, Australia, Hungary and USA.
  
• Weather Tromsø: Cloudy.
• Destination / weather: Skoddebergvatnet lake ("Mt. Winston Churchill") / cloudy.
• Aurora activity: 0/10.
• Aurora show: No visible, only green sky/clouds on pics.
• Tour km: 485.
• Tour hrs: 8,5.
• Wildlife: An hare and a fox

We are into the first of seven months of the Aurora season and I am sooooo tired of bad weather ... which we have had a lot of this September ... and last night I just got little mad of myself, when I trusted the weather forecast little too much and headed too far south ... I guess it was better if I had turned right in the crossroad towards Senja ... every night is a gamble when the weather are so tricky ...

September 19th

• Guests / Country: 8 guests from Taiwan, Mexico, Brasil and Israel.
  
• Weather Tromsø: Part clear.
• Destination / weather: Sommarøy / clear.
• Aurora activity: 8/10.
• Aurora show: All over and far south, curtains, curls and spikes. Little dancing in two colors visible for the naked eyes, three colors on camera. And a couple of small coronas.
• Tour km: 120.
• Tour hrs: 7,5.

Finally a good clear night on the coast again, so I gave my guests a roundtrip around Kvaløya island for showing them some of the hightlights until the darkness cover the sky ...

It was a long time waiting for the Aurora tonight which was coming early, but very faint, but the Aurora forecast was showing something more and better was on the way ... and guess what we got ... returned happy guests back to theirs hotels.

September 20th

• Guests / Country: 5 guests from Netherlands, Malaysia and USA.
  
• Weather Tromsø: Cloudy.
• Destination / weather: Kilpisjärvi, Finland / part clear.
• Aurora activity: 4/10.
• Aurora show: It was massive, all over and far south, but faint. Spikes and curls.
• Tour km: 380.
• Tour hrs: 8,5.
• Wildlife: One hare, three foxes and 30 lemmings (looks like it`s a lemming year).

Lovely partly sunny day today, but it will come in more clouds ... waked up with snowy peaks this morning and the mountain roads towards Finland got white today ... but, lets hope it will melt, since that way is our path tonight ... on summer tires ;)

September 23rd

• Guests / Country: 9 guests from Singapore, Spain and Switzerland.
  
• Weather Tromsø: Cloudy.
• Destination / weather: Kvalsundet / Balsfjord / Nordnes, Lyngenfjord.
• Aurora activity: 0/10.
• Aurora show: No visible - too cloudy!
• Tour km: 350.
• Tour hrs: 7,5.
• Wildlife: Two reindeer and a fox.

An impossible job! I was planned to cancel since all of our seven forecast showed totally overcast, but when the guests still wanted to try I can`t denied them ...

I am normally not canceling a chase cause bad weather, since you never know what happens out there ... since the clouds are moving ... but this night there was not a chance ... it`s pity, since it was probably a good show at 11 pm and 00.30 am ... tonight`s activity started already at 3 pm ...

September 24th

• Guests / Country: 10 guests from Singapore, Mexico, Ukraine and UK.
  
• Weather Tromsø: Cloudy.
• Destination / weather: Sør Malangen / Skibotn / Ramfjordmoen / part clear / haze.
• Aurora activity: 4/10.
• Aurora show: All over and far south, spikes, curls and little dancing.
• Tour km: 290.
• Tour hrs: 8,5.
• Space show: An quick bright fireball.
• Wildlife: One hare and a moose.

September 25th

• Guests / Country: 5 guests from Germany, Switzerland, Venezuela and USA.
  
• Weather Tromsø: Clear.
• Destination / weather: Skarsfjord / clear.
• Aurora activity: 6/10.
• Aurora show: All over and far south, spikes, curls and curtains. Little dancing. Four colors on camera.
• Tour km: 95.
• Tour hrs: 7,5.
• Wildlife: 8 reindeers, and one reindeer 2 meter from the bus door ... Great pics we got ;)

Tonight it was a championship of patience! And we won to the end ...

First it was a lovely sunset, then totally darkness with billion of stars ... and then a glow of Aurora low on the NE sky ... at 11.15 pm, after 3,5 hours waiting the Northern Lights begins to be stronger and colorful, and at midnight to good show begins ... on the way back to the city it was a good drop on the stackplot / real time activity, but it was not stronger, just covered all the sky, also far south ...

September 30th

• Guests / Country: 9 guests from Germany, India, Brasil and UK.
  
• Weather Tromsø: Clear.
• Destination / weather: Grøtfjord / clear.
• Aurora activity: 5/10.
• Aurora show: Several bands across, spikes, curls and little moving curtains. Three colors on camera.
• Tour km: 75.
• Tour hrs: 6.
• Space show: Several good fireballs, one orange, plus many white.

After a week with lovely weather on the coast and four nights with crazy good Aurora, she was little slow tonight ... but, this weekend a G2 magnetic solar storm is forecasted, so we`ll see what we get tonight of Lady Aurora`s performance ...