Trofors weather camera (Yr)
Trofors, Nordland, Norway
North-facing air-ambulance weather camera at Trofors in the Vefsna valley.
Northern lights tonight in Östersund
Live hourly aurora score for Östersund, Sweden: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Jämtland, Sweden, 63.18°N 14.64°EKiruna guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.Hattfjelldal weather camera (Yr)
Hattfjelldal, Nordland, Norway
Air-ambulance weather camera at inland Hattfjelldal, near the Swedish border.
Norsjö Observatory live cams
Norsjö, Västerbotten, Sweden
Private observatory and weather station in Västerbotten with live sky cameras and local aurora data.
Mosjøen weather camera (Yr)
Mosjøen, Nordland, Norway
Air-ambulance weather camera at Mosjøen in Helgeland, looking north-west.
Live Camera Arvidsjaur
Arvidsjaur, Swedish Lapland
Continuous stream from Arvidsjaur, just south of the Arctic Circle.
Northern lights in Östersund: what to expect
- Latitude
- 63.18° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 61.9°
- Kp needed
- 3+
- Clear-night chance
- ~40%
Östersund lies at 63.18° N in Jämtland, Sweden, about 376 km south of the Arctic Circle. Its geomagnetic latitude of about 61.9° is just south of the usual auroral oval. Aurora is seen on many active nights, often low in the northern sky, and the oval's edge reaches this far south from about Kp 3. A dark, clear night has roughly a 40% chance of some aurora.
Nights with at least two hours of real darkness run from mid-August to late April; in the light summer nights between, the aurora cannot be seen. Around the winter solstice the sun is more than 12° below the horizon for about 15 hours a day.
Clouds decide most nights, and we have no long-term cloud record near Östersund. The hourly score above uses the live cloud forecast for this exact spot, so on a storm night it shows whether the sky is open where you are.
Coordinates: Wikipedia. Magnetic latitude, Kp and darkness are calculated from them; the clear-night chance is a long-term average, not a forecast.