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G4Peak 25 September 1998 at 06:00 UTC

Northern Lights on 25 September 1998 (Kp 8.3): Where They Were Visible

Kp reached 8.3. At that level the edge of the auroral oval reaches about 49.8° magnetic latitude, so the aurora could be seen low on the horizon down to roughly 45.3°. Activity stayed at storm level (Kp 5 or more) for 21 hours.

03579 G1 G3 Wed 23 Sept 21:00 UTC · Kp 2.67 Thu 24 Sept 00:00 UTC · Kp 3.33 Thu 24 Sept 03:00 UTC · Kp 4.67 Thu 24 Sept 06:00 UTC · Kp 4.00 Thu 24 Sept 09:00 UTC · Kp 3.67 Thu 24 Sept 12:00 UTC · Kp 1.33 Thu 24 Sept 15:00 UTC · Kp 2.67 Thu 24 Sept 18:00 UTC · Kp 3.33 Thu 24 Sept 21:00 UTC · Kp 6.00 Fri 25 Sept 00:00 UTC · Kp 7.67 Fri 25 Sept 03:00 UTC · Kp 8.00 Fri 25 Sept 06:00 UTC · Kp 8.33 Fri 25 Sept 09:00 UTC · Kp 7.00 Fri 25 Sept 12:00 UTC · Kp 6.33 Fri 25 Sept 15:00 UTC · Kp 5.67 Fri 25 Sept 18:00 UTC · Kp 2.67 Fri 25 Sept 21:00 UTC · Kp 2.33 Sat 26 Sept 00:00 UTC · Kp 2.00 Sat 26 Sept 03:00 UTC · Kp 1.67 Sat 26 Sept 06:00 UTC · Kp 1.33 Sat 26 Sept 09:00 UTC · Kp 2.67 Sat 26 Sept 12:00 UTC · Kp 4.00 Sat 26 Sept 15:00 UTC · Kp 4.33 Thu 24 SeptFri 25 SeptSat 26 Sept
Kp 0–3 Kp 4 Kp 5–6 (G1–G2) Kp 7+ (G3+) Times in UTC; faded bars are forecasts.

Three-hourly Kp from GFZ, one day either side of the storm.

Where the aurora could be seen

4,423 towns on our list had enough activity while it was dark there. Cloud cover is not included.

CountryPlacesExamplesFurthest from the pole
United States 1,837 New York City, Brooklyn, Chicago, Queens Virginia Beach
United Kingdom 710 London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester Falmouth
Canada 407 Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa Eastern Passage
Germany 339 Berlin, Hamburg, Köln, Düsseldorf Koblenz
Poland 196 Warsaw, Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk Lublin
Sweden 148 Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Uppsala Trelleborg
Netherlands 147 Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht Maastricht
Finland 123 Helsinki, Espoon keskus, Tampere urban area, Vantaa Raseborg
Belgium 101 Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi Charleroi
Denmark 94 Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense, Aalborg Nykøbing Falster
Norway 77 Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger Mandal
Ireland 55 Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway Cork
Latvia 39 Riga, Daugavpils, Liepāja, Jelgava Daugavpils
Lithuania 31 Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda City Municipality, Šiauliai Druskininkai
New Zealand 30 Christchurch, Wellington, Dunedin, Lower Hutt Whanganui
Estonia 21 Tallinn, Tartu, Narva, Pärnu Võru
France 21 Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Dunkirk Maubeuge
Iceland 18 Reykjavík, Kópavogur, Hafnarfjörður, Reykjanesbær Vík í Mýrdal
Australia 15 Melbourne, Geelong, Hobart, Ballarat Ballarat
Greenland 6 Nuuk, Sisimiut, Ilulissat, Qaqortoq Qaqortoq
Faroe Islands 4 Tórshavn, Klaksvík, Fuglafjørður, Miðvágur Tórshavn
Kazakhstan 3 Kostanay, Petropavl, Kokshetau Kostanay
Svalbard & Jan Mayen 1 Longyearbyen Longyearbyen
Based on each place's Kp threshold (terrain included) and the Sun's position during each 3-hour Kp block.

Only in photos

2,074 more towns could have caught a faint red or green glow low on the horizon with a phone or camera.

Whether the aurora was actually seen also depended on the weather. Use this as a guide to where it was possible.

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