Recently at work, via a daily fun intranet poll, there was a question asking employees if anyone saw northern lights.

I was amazed that out of 800+ employees who responded, over 70% had seen aurora bourealis!
Now it's easier to see northern lights on the prairies as one goes further and further north. We don't get them (or if we do, is very rare) within our city area. But I realize several hundred km. north of us, if one is lucky one might see them.

Like seeing a whale or 2 on the pacific coast: it's not guaranteed at all. And for northern lights, there's no typical migration season where the whales hang out in the same area.

Have you seen northern lights?