Ask An Expert: How do the northern lights work? (with dancing)
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- Опубліковано 17 січ 2023
- How do the northern lights work? The Reykjavík Grapevine turned to Marcel de Vries, a meteorologist at the Icelandic Met Office, for all the red hot details about solar radiation, sunspots, optimal viewing conditions and so much more. Oh, and he dances.
Read the "Ask An Expert" column in the January 2023 issue of the Reykjavík Grapevine for our interview with Marcel: grapevine.is/mag/2023/01/17/a...
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Are you guys going to bring back the Newscasts with Josie or any others currently working at Grapevine?
No, the Grapevine isn't a newspaper, so we're refocusing our video segments on the great content we're producing for the magazine.
Valur & even Polly with Art could host this!!! Miss their unique broadcast format!
Good grief, please bring back the walkabouts and the discussions about news and culture and life as lived in Iceland. Show us the place, and let us see what's going on right now, that's why we're here.
Don't follow a marketing model that is 25 years out of date.
I did enjoy this vid of course... But what on earth is your longer-term plan?
Are you trying to run The Grapevine into the ground, to sink the ship?
Their main deal is most likely the newspaper, where they get their income, while the youtube channel likely was/is a non-profit deal, but the people creating it are paid proffesionals.
Well said!!!
At 9:37 - a troll watching the northern lights! What a wonderful idea to have a huge screen and a way to lie down and take it in. I knew some of this information presented, but I also learned some things. Thank you!
I agree with the commenter, Elizabeth, that talking about the weather in Iceland would be so interesting. I see on the RUI page about the yellow/orange/red warnings...the high winds and dangerous precipitation. It seems to happen a lot in winter. How much routine, in the city, can continue under these conditions? Of course, farmers have to farm, etc, but they will probably not be filmed (although I would actually be more interested in their lives under extreme conditions). But how city life goes on is also of interest to me.
Please, talk about weather in Iceland. My mother used to say: “When weather becomes news”. And she was right. It can be very dangerous. And also, talk about marine currents around Iceland and their effects on weather and living beings. Thank you for your great views!! 🌠
All great ideas for future Ask An Expert columns. Thanks for watching, Elizabeth!
Thanks Marcel…and you’ve got some sweet moves.
One of the most fascinating natural phenomina. Thanks for your explanations. Mybe one day6 I.ll get to see them.
Nice cheerful little segment 😊well done
This guy is amazing and awesome.
My sister and brother in law visited Iceland to see the lights...they left their hotel at night and headed north from Reykjavik but had no luck...at the hotel the manager asked them if they had seen the lights as they had a great view from the hotel roof that night!.. 🤣🤣🤣
Hallo Marcel, leuk om het van jou te horen.
ik heb het geluk gehad het al een paar keer gezien te hebben. in Trømso Svolvear en Arvidsjaur. het blijft een geweldige ervaring. werk ze. moet even wennen aan de nieuwe uitzendingen van jullie. groet uit Holland Margot
I have been twice just to see the lights but the weather hasn't cooperated at all! It is just an excuse to keep coming back though. Enjoying this series so far.
I am just a few days back from Iceland and I saw them 4 days. They are beautifull.
Another place to see the Northern Lights is from an aircraft. I once went to visit a friend in Japan, and the 12-hour flight was routed round the north of Russia and Siberia, before crossing Mongolia to get there. At about 2:30 a.m. I looked out of the window and there was this sort of small shower-curtain phenomenon in the sky, apparently below the aircraft, in a grey colour. It was still there an hour later, so it could not have been land or a reflection in the glass. Asking an expert later back in London, he said that it appeared to be below the aircraft due to the curvature of the earth and the lights being a long way off. And the reason it was grey not the usual green and red seen in photographs was because our eyes do not perceive much colour in darkness, unless very close. And it wasn't really moving because many camera images are speeded up to show this. Unfortunately, I have only ever been to Iceland in the summer, when it does not get fully dark, so have never seen the Lights from the ground in full colour, but it is good to have it all explained here.
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I love experts ! Especially this kind, have no idea what is he talking about ! Where is the sunshine coming from at night ? I may understand Iceland, but how about Port Elgin in Canada on the Lake Huron a couple of days ago ? Where is sunshine came from at the nigt time in our winter ? Perhaps it is not round ? LOL !
so boring all after valur .. you cant reach him