Sound of Aurora Buzzing During G3 Storm in South Dakota USA 11-04-2021 Evan Ludes

[@rileytroyer7578]

This is incredibly interesting! Thanks for sharing! I'm a Ph.D. student at the University of Iowa who studies pulsating aurora (what we call the pulsing auroral forms). I'd love to follow up on this at some point as I've never seen a direct link like this between ground-based currents and pulsating aurora. I'll send you a private message through your website/email.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Thanks for reaching out Riley! Keep in touch and let me know what you need for the research :)

[@TannerCharlesYT]

Let/s go!

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[@Utoob360]

Hawkeyes!!

[@4thebees]

@@GregoryJByrne 🤜🏼🤛🏽

[@mikemoralesKartRacer]

THANKS FOR DOCUMENTING

[@geezermann7865]

Hey Mike, I also sub to your channel. I'm the guy who sent MrMBB333 the link to this vid here after seeing it yesterday.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Thanks for watching, Mike! Hopefully more cool aurora content soon.

[@Thyalwaysseek]

The Universe is electric.

[@marthaduncan7694]

Greetings. I live near Banff Alberta and I witnessed what you did, however, no power lines nearby and I heard/felt the "whatever" it was. It did flicker wildly and continued to do so for about an hour. It looked more to me like green light being shone into water...it rippled more than flickered, if you get what I mean. The ripple went from horizon up to way above my head (kinda high noon) where it eased off in intensity. There were these geometric looking pilars of light that I watched rotate around like a giant carousel as the colours rotated/changed from yellow, to red, to orange and back thru the sequence. The coloured lights moved around low on the horizon, whilst the neon green covered the entire north east and west sky - the south looked different...like a square panel of grey - gun metal grey. I had never witnessed such a thing in my life. I stood outside and just watched in awe for almost 3 hours before it started to "dim" considerably and the "feeling/sound" that enchanted me enough to have me stand there in freezing temps for so long, faded away. Again, not only could I hear it, I could feel it. A hum, buzz with a slight tremor to it...almost felt like my inner organs were vibing with the display I was watching. Perhaps the most intense feeling of "butterflies in my tummy" ever :) Great video, thank you Evan. :)

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Wow thank you so much for your detailed recounting of events, Martha! Glad I could capture the video and remind you of such an incredible experience. I thought it might be a possibility that the sound was coming from the powerlines simply moving. However, after reviewing my timelapse footage (which I should be posting soon) it doesn't appear that the lines were moving at all. It was absolutely fascinating!

[@MrMBB333]

Hi Evan, Great catch! A gentleman just sent me an e-mail saying you said it was "ok" to use this in a video? He sent me the link here to your video. If so let me know, more people need to see (hear) this. I will send people here of course. Thanks, MrMBB333

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Hey there, yes he referred to your channel saying you talked about this kind of stuff! Please feel free to use this video if you'd like to feature or talk about it on your channel. Thanks for asking, and I'd appreciate a link once you upload anything about it! 😁

[@MrMBB333]

@@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo Yes, I will feature tonight!

[@MrMBB333]

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[@cherryboo65b56]

Here from your channel!

[@geezermann7865]

@@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo LOL, I sent him your link earlier, and figured he'd like it, but I'm surprised he used it so quickly. I'm glad more people could see it. And hear it.

[@nancyjohnston3405]

I saw the pulsing of this storm on 11/4/21 in Northern Idaho. It was similar to what you saw, with the naked eye. I didn’t hear the buzzing though but wasn’t near electrical lines. This is really cool. Thanks for sharing.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Glad you got to see it too, the pulsating was so cool! As a storm chaser, it reminded me of distant intercloud lightning in a storm.

[@rudy103069]

i like pulsating too.

[@lizabrown8856]

What a great capture! So nice when "right place, right time" happens. ♥️

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Thank you so much, Liza! :)

[@bentemple6043]

Woah this might be the first time someone has actually recorded the sound with pretty good quality. Also that is rather beautiful the flickers of light.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Thanks Ben! I know, I wish I woukd have thought to get out and record more using different mics. I know I've read of other people getting the similar "chirping" sound, which I suspect is the geomagnetic current manipulating the wires somehow. www.sciencealert.com/strange-sounds-have-been-recorded-in-sweden-coming-from-the-northern-lights

[@bentemple6043]

@@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo the main thing is u got it with video and the same sound correlated directly to flashing pulses of light

[@badkarma6181]

It is according to MrMBB333

[@IbelongtoJesusChrist]

This is so incredible!!!! My jaw dropped when seeing the Aurora Borealis flash and dance around in the sky. It was truly a sight to see. I’m a big fan of Mr Mbb also, such an amazing catch!!

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

It was surreal to see in person! Hopefully more aurora coming as we exit the most recent solar minimum.

[@tenter8457]

This is an awesome video! I especially love the part where a tie fighter goes screaming across the screen at the end.

[@tenter8457]

On a more serious note, the interaction of the geomagnetic storm and the other elements of the environment are fascinating. There are a lot of stories of strange sounds associated with Aurora.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

LOL. One of a whole 3 cars I saw that night in the badlands!

[@asteroid42531mckenna]

That's amazing Evan!

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

cheers Martin! Definitely a unique experience. Can't wait to share the timelapses! This probably took the cake though.

[@roughie85]

When thr Northern Lights flash, they send 100,000-ampere electric currents throughout the upper atmosphere. The magnetic fields associated with those currents can reach down to induce electric currents along power lines which is how power grids get overloaded during magnetic storms. What you're hearing is the coronal discharge from the power lines ( Is often heard when it's raining and durin thunderstorms too) getting loaded with those currents.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

That was my assumption as well, geomagnetic induced currents. Didn't notice any "St Elmo's Fire" but the pulsing and sound that was seemingly tied to it was fascinating. I plan on returning to the same location in the future just to see if there's any way to recreate or observe the sound without the geomagnetic influence.

[@roughie85]

@@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo Ive never seen any St Elmos fire associated with them either and Ive never taken a close look but I'm not sure if there are any pointy or rod like objects connected that would enable St Elmos fire to appear on the power line poles... If there was you would think there was enough electricity in the atmosphere to produce it because sometimes during the really big geomagnetic storms the power lines make that popping sound quite furiously and it's really interesting. It's really cool that you caught that on video and you can actually hear it.. I honestly never ever even thought of taking audio recordings of it at all.

[@lloydhawkins538]

Thanks for sharing that was really cool was almost like I was there thanks!

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Thanks for watching, Lloyd! Glad you liked it!

[@gtranquilla]

A small taste of what can happen if another Carrington event occurs....

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Yeah, no kidding! Definitely would not be fun (though it would be interesting).

[@jodygoodman916]

I might be the crazy one, but as a kid in Alberta, I remember hearing the aurora itself on a very clear and quiet night.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

I have a friend that says he's heard the same thing! Said it sounded like a smooth whooshing windmill.

[@stumpyangel2043]

Great job getting this. I live in town and wouldn't be able to see or hear this. Thank You for Sharing 😊

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Thanks for checking it out! Glad I made the venture out of Rapid City to see the lights. I'm always hesitant to tell people what nights to look as it's often disappointing if you don't catch the peak or give your eyes enough time to adjust.

[@noellereiter8041]

I saw this flashing last Thursday morning above the northern lights curtain in the horizon on my walk to work. Thank you for sharing this.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Thanks for watching, Noelle! The pulsating is definitely wild to see with the naked eye.

[@moonlightaurora2943]

Appreciate the video, exactly what I was looking for

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Thanks for watching! Hopefully we'll see more auroras soon :)

[@JenniLudes]

Well, there was the Carrington Event in 1859 that disrupted telegraph lines and caused sparking and buzzing in the lines and telegraph machines. Small scale similar here...makes sense.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Believe there were a few events in Camada in the 90s and early 00s that also caused some minor damage and outages. Now I'm wishing I would have got out of the car and walked around a little more to examine different surfaces. In the clip where the noise is louder, I was actually closer to a barbed wire fence than the powerlines. Would make sense that a miles-long thin wore would get a geomagnetically induced current.

[@Thyalwaysseek]

@@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo This solar maximum is just getting started I am sure you will get your chance to observe more of these events soon.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

@@Thyalwaysseek yes, excited to finally come out of the solar minimum! I'll have to use a proper mic next time.

[@Thyalwaysseek]

@@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo Looking forward to you catching more of these events, unfortunately in the Southern Hemi it's not something I will probably ever experience.

[@Utoob360]

I was out road-tripping in BFE New Mexico during the height of the last sun episode 11/3-4 and crossed a power line that was extremely loud, midday early afternoon . All I could think about was the telegraph operators…

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Yeah, I checked out some.poles during a midday KP8. They were buzzing! Gives you something interesting to do when it's too bright to see the lights lol

[@AceMBP]

Back in the days of Texas radio there was so much being broadcast that one could hear the radio on barbed wire.

[@rudy103069]

Imagine what it does to the body?radios mess up kidneys.

[@AceMBP]

@@rudy103069 can't be helpful

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Wow that's amazing! I hadn't heard of that. Though I had heard of people being able to hear the radio through their fillings, lol

[@AceMBP]

@@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5PHdGqhZ7OoatU Texas Radio and the Big Beat.

[@zackwireheight9111]

You just brought back a childhood memory of visits to my aunt's home on the Atlantic coast near 2 giant antennas. We kids took turns sleeping in the 'radio bed'. Sometime the metal frame picked up faint music, shows, even foreign language stations. We were so amazed by this.

[@chanahera]

Wonderful, if I may Aurora also produce a distinct clicking type of noise noteable during geomagnetic storm Kp index increase activity. Describe this click noise as a fast intermittent type discharge of sound. Thank you for recording, your tuning, picking up on this natural noise/sound. I imagine you would have felt the hairs on your body stick up, receiving a momentary simult neural/physical react response.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Yes, I wish I would have stayed out a little longer to experience and investigate it more! Unfortunately I was already nearly 4:30am and I had to go to work in a few hours 😅

[@cherryboo65b56]

That’s the sound I always hear from auroras, but much louder! I love watching livestreams of it. From mr. Mbb333’s channel!

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

That's so cool! Glad I'm not alone in hearing the noise. Hopefully with the solar max this year I'll get another chance.

[@TannerCharlesYT]

Great work man!

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Thanks Tanner! 👍 Can't wait to process some photos and wait for the next opportunity!

[@rudy103069]

people its people.

[@barbarian1111]

4:20 am My favorite time of the day.. I heard that same noise years ago 👍

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

🤣 Thought someone might catch that haha.

[@peeessaye-7339]

Someone should break it down in musical language, and frequency/tone/vibration patterns. That would be cool.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Currently have a couple people using these clips in their aurora research!

[@anitamitchell6434]

Great video! Thank you!

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Thanks for watching! Have got lots of new aurora stuff to share from this most recent storm.

[@ruthsnyder4315]

Wow, never seen or heard anything like that before. Very strange indeed.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

With the solar maximum this year, I'm going to try to see if I can document this buzzing again :)

[@imajokerimasmokerimamidnig7442]

Wow..Thank you for sharing.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Thanks for watching!

[@Stacydsullivan]

This is incredible !!

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Thanks for watching Stacy!

[@carolgillett22]

NIce catch. Watched it on MrMBB first, thought I would check original.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Thanks for checking it out, Carol! Should have several timelapses from the night ready to post in the next week 👍

[@Andtherewasguitar]

I heard an aurora once too, and it was also flickering quite a bit. Have seen many more, but never heard accompanying sounds.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

The next time there's a strong storm, stand near some power lines and see what you hear!

[@Andtherewasguitar]

@@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo It sounded almost like a far away (ghost) train. I wonder if it was actually power lines or other electrical things getting affected? It seems likely.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

@@Andtherewasguitar that would be my hypothesis! I know the geomagnetic effects can be pretty strong. They actually recently released a model effectively showing the impact on the electric grid. www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/geoelectric-field-1-minute-empirical-emtf-3d-model

[@virginianemith]

Cool. Thank you for sharing.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Thanks for watching, Virginia!

[@ToeBeans7696]

Those chirps are like when someone taps on a power line too

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Interesting to know, thank you!

[@ClintonWaller]

Very cool, wish I could play with your footage in my editor, might be able to tease more light out of it with some of my tricks..

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

I just about maxed the brightness/contrast in Premiere. I should probably play with the levels more and maybe give it a go in DaVinci Resolve, but a better low light camera would have been the best solution!

[@ClintonWaller]

Try stacking clips and using additive or multiply blend/composite, also a saturation bump to the darks might pop the aurora colours a bit out of the blacks.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

@@ClintonWaller that's a great idea! I'll try that for my longer video that includes the timelapse portions.

[@jsauerii]

I have heard that hundreds of times over my 50 years, it had nothing to do with auroras or GM activity. It was much more prevalent back 30 years ago where you could be out in the evening or night and hear the power lines pulsing with various tones. I used to think it was related to the vibration of the wire on the glass / ceramic insulators which were on the older lines and poles which are far less common now. The glass ones were louder than ceramics,

[@eucmike]

The Sound is from electrically charged particles that cause the Aurora. I live in Canada where we see them more often. Its normal for the buzzing sound even a fence will make the sound. The OP of the video also commented he herd this too in the video. I have heard the same sound no power lines around... GM storms are known for this. GM Storms cause huge electric currents throughout the upper atmosphere and electric currents along power lines or anything that is a good conductor. Also why hydro girds have been damaged before from GM activity.

[@jsauerii]

@@eucmike That only works as an absolute if it hadn't happened during spotless periods with no activity at all. but I have also heard fences doing it. The times i have heard the most was before large T storms back in my storm photography days (where I know Mr Ludes from (ST) but thats been a minute or three back in the day), in that case it was likely a charge up in the atmosphere.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Yes, powerlines in general can make this noise just by moving. Ultimately I think that's all the "chirping" is coming from, either the wire fence or the powerline undergoing different levels of tension. With there being next to no wind this evening though, and the sound nearly in sync with the pulsating, I'd have a hard time blaming it on the wind. Maybe there was a cow scratching itself on a loose fence post or power pole 😂

[@eucmike]

@@jsauerii lol speculation on your part... Fact is it's documented many places Aurora's causing buzzing of power lines and fences. And science to back it. I see an aurora almost every year where I'm located. And the sounds that they create in object's in dead clam weather. Also a GM storm was the reason the power grid failed in Quebec during a major solar event in one of the last solar cycle not weather. Also we can have Aurora's from geomagnetic storms from the solar wind when a Corona hole is pointed towards Earth. This can happen in solar minimum or any time.

[@auroranotify]

@@eucmike it did not sound like aurora to me.

[@MegaHaiQ]

Chirping is normal for those big power lines when countered physichal or strong electromagnetic contact with them, allso pulsating auroras is normal i see them every year in finland.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

I'm jealous, I'd love to see aurora there! With the recent solar minimum, it had been a few years since we were able to see anything here of note at 44N

[@auroranotify]

this does not sound like aurora. The pulsing and flickering are from the direction of the solar winds (the Bz) being northward.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Data at the time was pretty maxed (at least by mid-lats standards). Bz at around -18, Bt at 22, hemispheric power ~180GW and KP7. This was shot when it was nearing the "extreme" category on the SpaceweatherLive charts (Earth line). Do you have more info on what causes the flickering?

[@cat_enjoyer420]

so cool omg !

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Thank you! Heard lots of reports of more buzzing lines during this most recent storm, too.

[@joecurmaci5880]

It's a churning sound to either is churning like butter

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

You're right, it does sound like a churning noise. Almost mechanical in nature.

[@nebula6362]

Wow grids reacting to magnetic disturbance.

[@Thyalwaysseek]

Wait til the transformers all start overloading and catching on fire.

[@nebula6362]

@@Thyalwaysseek Can't wait!

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Yeah, luckily I think they've started studying the impacts of geomagnetic storms on our power grid in recent years.

[@KKing55]

Best Ever~!!!

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

😊

[@burnett8226]

Was that on a high line? Aka transmission line.. if so they do that everywhere all the time.

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

These were just standard power poles. Not the large metal ones.

[@burnett8226]

Very interesting for distribution lines to do that.

[@GermanBoy84]

A Big Earthquake is happening when you are see These things..GodBless🙏🏽

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Not too many earthquakes around here, at least.

[@NessInTexas-x2e]

Oscillating noise

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Whatever it's from, it was definitely surprising!

[@googoobaby2394]

Mrmbb sent me 😊

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Always appreciate the shoutout!

[@joecurmaci5880]

Makes you think of Charles Brody and Steinmetz and Nikola Tesla how they understood these things amazing right

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

Way ahead of their time, for sure!

[@valerianthemackiii5896]

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[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

That sounds fun!

[@huwkelvinmorgan3575]

sprites

[@EvanLudesWeatherNatureVideo]

The way they were flashing actually did remind me of those a bit, or Elves! Will have to try and shoot those next storm season.