Aurora Borealis (General)
by gerrym 
, Tuesday, September 09, 2008, 11:14 (5929 days ago)
I seem to remember seeing the Northern Lights from Drybrook round about 1946.
Are there any records to confirm this ?
Gerrym
Aurora Borealis
by ChrisW , Tuesday, September 09, 2008, 13:18 (5928 days ago) @ gerrym
From the American Physical Society.
I wonder if this is what you saw?
Received 28 October 1946
The meteor shower of October 9-10, 1946, produced intense ionization in the upper atmosphere. This phenomenon provides the first opportunity to calculate directly the energy required to produce an ionospheric layer. The necessary power is found to be a few watts per square kilometer, a value comfortably exceeded by the blackbody radiation of the sun in the region of 1000A.
Aurora Borealis
by gerrym , Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 14:53 (5927 days ago) @ ChrisW
Thanks for the information - it could be the explanation, though I distinctly remember a greenish glow in the sky looking north from our house, which seemed to last for quite a time. My father took me outside to watch and he said it was the Northern Lights. I am not positive about the date, though it was in the middle 1940s.
Gerrym