Can Mohe see the Northern Lights? Winter or summer?

Mohe is located between 5210 ′ and 53 20 ′ north latitude, which is the highest and coldest county in China. In eight months of the year, the average temperature is below 0℃, and the average temperature in 65438+1October reaches-30 6℃. The extreme minimum temperature is-52 3℃, and the annual average temperature is-5 5℃. Due to the cold weather, Mohe is a permafrost region, and the frozen soil layer is below 100 meters. Even if the surface thaws in summer, the melting layer is only about 2 meters.

Mohe people have a lot to be proud of. In addition to forest resources and rich mineral resources such as gold, coal and oil, there are hundreds of rare animals such as pheasant, wild boar and deer, and cold-water fish such as barracuda, bighead carp and cod in the river are well-known at home and abroad. Jagda, wild grapes and persimmons in the mountains are excellent raw materials for brewing and making drinks, and Hericium erinaceus, auricularia auricula, Tricholoma matsutake and Ganoderma lucidum are also found in the forest. ...

However, Mohe people and tourists are most concerned about the two local natural landscapes-White Night and Northern Lights.

White night, the summer solstice every year, due to the direct sunlight on the Tropic of Cancer, China in the northern hemisphere formed the phenomenon of long days and short nights. Mohe is in the northernmost part of China, with long days and short nights. On the day of summer solstice, the sunshine time in Mohe is as long as 17 hours, and it is still bright after sunset 1 1. People can sit in the white night reading, writing and playing chess. 1 until 2 o'clock at midnight, the so-called night falls and the sky is gray. People can still tell each other when they are more than ten meters apart. At this time, over the Mohe River, the sunset glow and the morning glow complement each other, and the scenery is extremely beautiful. The night lasted less than two hours, and it was dawn again. The local people said: After watching a movie, it was dawn again.

Another scenery of Mohe: the Northern Lights can be seen at night around the summer solstice. Aurora is a rare natural phenomenon, which occurs in the polar regions of the earth. It is produced because the high-speed charged particles emitted by the sun are biased to the two poles by the influence of the earth's polar magnetic field, and collide violently with molecules and atoms in the atmosphere to produce light beams. What happens in the South Pole is called the Southern Lights, and what happens in the North Pole is called the Northern Lights.

The northern lights come in many shapes. At present, what people see are arcs, columns, ribbons, shuttles and gourds. Some colors are orange, some are purple, some are apricot yellow, some are red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. Aurora stays in the air for a long time from its first appearance to its disappearance, ranging from a few minutes to dozens of minutes. For example, 1957 has a 45-minute arc aurora here. And it is unpredictable, colorful, colorful and spectacular.

Mohe County is the best place to observe the Northern Lights in China, so Mohe County Party Committee and county government designated the summer solstice as the Northern Lights Festival. On this day every year, thousands of tourists from home and abroad gather in the Arctic Village of the county to spend a rare white night and look forward to seeing the magical Northern Lights. However, the Northern Lights do not appear every year. It is understood that most of the local middle-aged and elderly people have seen the Northern Lights, but not many young people have seen them.