Before embarking on a tour to go see the Aurora Borealis Yukon, you should check in with one of the aurora forecasting services to see what kind of aurora activity can be expected. The Northern Lights are much more easily seen during certain seasons. The nights need to be dark enough, for one thing, which happens typically from September to August.

Moreover, aurora activity is driven to a large degree by the activity of the sun. Solar wind collides with the electrons bunched up near the North Pole, reacts with those particles, and produces the light effects necessary for the Aurora Borealis Yukon. Without occasional solar activity, the Northern Lights would never reach the spectacular strength and beauty that they occasionally do.

Traveling to See the Aurora Borealis Yukon
Fortunately, solar activity can be forecast with a good deal of accuracy. We can tell when the sun is emitting a particularly large amount of solar wind, and since it takes a few days for the sun's particles to reach our atmosphere, we know at least 2-3 days ahead of time when the Aurora Borealis Yukon will be especially strong.

If you are planning on traveling North to see the Aurora Borealis Yukon, you might want to check in with one of the space weather forecast websites or services while you're there to see what the next few days might bring. Some rare days, after particularly intense solar activity, the Northern Lights are visible as far South as Washington State. That's more of a once in a decade occurrence, however.

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