{"id":1181,"date":"2016-08-12T10:28:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T22:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2016-08-12T10:28:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T22:28:45","slug":"winter-aurora-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/winter-aurora-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Aurora Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a relatively warm winter this year with less snows falling or frosts in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>On the 4th of August 2016, it happened to be one of the nights that the aurora was predicted to be large but also having snow warnings\u00a0and\u00a0icy roads.<\/p>\n<p>While the solarwind was predicted to hit us strong, the sky was cloudy with mixture of snow and rain while the wind became stronger and while it became a blizzard.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1189\" style=\"width: 1045px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/auroraalert_screenshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1189\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1189\" src=\"http:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/auroraalert_screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"Resources alerting strong auroras\" width=\"1035\" height=\"1039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/auroraalert_screenshot.jpg 1035w, https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/auroraalert_screenshot-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/auroraalert_screenshot-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/auroraalert_screenshot-768x771.jpg 768w, https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/auroraalert_screenshot-1020x1024.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1035px) 100vw, 1035px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[Resources alerting strong auroras]<\/p><\/div>While it was almost snowing but raining in Dunedin where I live, some people in Southland reported the sky being clear and witnessing auroras.<\/p>\n<p>So south I went. I saw a green light glowing in between the dark clouds after\u00a0driving\u00a0south on Highway 1 for an hour. Each time I stopped finding a slight clearance of the sky the cloud came rolling in fast from the north. I was literally racing with the clouds and got few photos while beating the clouds for a moment.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1182\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1182\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1182\" src=\"http:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/traceoflight_4Aug2016.2.jpg\" alt=\"Mist effect coming from the humidity and the snow clouds giving a romantic feeling to the stars\" width=\"730\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/traceoflight_4Aug2016.2.jpg 730w, https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/traceoflight_4Aug2016.2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/traceoflight_4Aug2016.2-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[Somewhere in Balclutha, New Zealand.\u00a04th August 2016]<\/p><\/div>Mist effect coming from the humidity and the snow clouds gave\u00a0a romantic feeling to the stars and the air feeling very frosty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a relatively warm winter this year with less snows falling or frosts in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aurora-australis","category-landscape-photography","category-night-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}