History Main / WintryAuroralSky

* Balto takes Jenna to see the Northern Lights in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}''.

->Overhead, in the sky, there shimmered two lines of light that swayed and faded in and out of each other in the sky. Boss watched them in awe, still not quite understanding them. They had no smell, made no sound, and yet they danced in the air above them, like two angry dogs made of light fighting each other.

An aurora borealis -- or australis in the Southern hemisphere -- is a phenomenon occuring near the poles of the Earth when particles coming from the sun (known as the solar wind) gets aspired by the planet's magnetic field, whose poles are conveniently almost at the same place as the Earth's rotation poles. This creates magnificent and breathtaking light-shows that colour and illuminate the polar skies. Auroras are predominantly green, but they are known to come in other colours as well.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Smoking doesn't usually look this [[{{Pun}} cool]].]]

An aurora borealis -- or australis in the Southern hemisphere -- is a phenomenon occuring near the poles of the Earth when particles coming from the sun (known as the solar wind) gets aspired by the planet's magnetic field, whose poles are conveniently almost at the same place as the Earth's rotation poles. This creates magnificient and breathtaking light-shows that colour and illuminate the polar skies. Auroras are predominantly green, but they are known to come in other colours as well.

* In the second chapter of the ''Literature/SoldierDogs'' book ''Battle of The Bulge''. the dogs and their master view the aurora borealis. None of the dogs understand the lights but they like the sight.

* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'': In both ''City Folk'' and ''New Leaf'', auroras can appears several times during the cold winters, even though if the summer is to be believed, the town's climate is ''nowhere'' near polar.

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* There are the green and purple hues of the Northern Lights in several of the nighttime scenes in ''Disney/{{Frozen}}''. The first scene shows men harvesting ice while singing about its power and ends with a shot of the lights, which is used as a transition to a scene where little Anna wakes Elsa up, not being able to sleep due to them. That in turn sets up a scene where the two decide to play together with Elsa's ice magic. Later, the lights appear in a scene while Anna's starting to freeze to death.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** The Northern Lights also appear in ''Disney/FrozenII''

* There are green and purple hues of the NorthernLights in many of the nighttime scenes in ''Disney/{{Frozen}}''. The plot starts because little Anna wakes Elsa up, not being able to sleep due to the lights.
** The Northern Ligths also appear in ''Disney/FrozenII''

** The Northern Ligths also appear in ''Disney/Frozen''

* There are green and purple northern lights in many of the scenes set at night in ''Disney/{{Frozen}}''. The plot even starts because, when they are kids, Anna wakes Elsa up not being able to sleep due to the lights.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' often features these in clear night skies.

''Aurora borealis''? [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons At this time of year? At this time of the day? In this part of the TV Tropes Wiki? Localized entirely on this page?!]]

* In the ''VideoGame/YoshisCraftedWorld'' level ''Slip-Slide Isle'', which takes place on a frozen island, blue auroras shimmer in the night sky.

** The top outdoors floors in Joke's End, the frozen dungeon of ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'' shows a night sky laced with multicoloured auroras in the background.

[[quoteright:350:[[VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tundraful.png]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Smoking doesn't usually look this [[{{Pun}} cool]].]]

An aurora borealis - or australis in the Southern hemisphere - is a phenomenon occuring near the poles of the Earth when particles coming from the sun (known as the solar wind) gets aspired by the planet's magnetic field - whose poles are conveniently almost at the same place as the Earth's rotation poles. This creates magnificient and breathtaking light-shows that colour and illuminate the polar skies. Auroras are predominantly green, but they have come in other colours as well.

* A game with misplacing northern lights would be the ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' series: in both ''City Folk'' and ''New Leaf'', auroras can appears several times during the cold winters, even though if the summer is to be believed, the town's climate is ''nowhere'' near polar.

* Justified in the Sim Store exclusive town of ''Aurora Skies'' in ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', as it is based on an icelandic township, and as such does feature auroras at nighttime. After all, it's all in the name.
* The Oceanora Deep-Sea Cruise in the ''VideoGame/StreetpassMiiPlaza'' game ''Ultimate Angler'' lies in frosty waters filled with various iceberg, near the coasts of the Oceanora Island (which features various biomes including a ''tropical beach''). This fishing spot takes place during nighttime and auroras shimmer in the dark skies, completing the polar atmosphere.

* In ''VideoGame/DisneysMagicalQuest'' games, these can be in the background of the icy levels.
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' often features these in clear night skies.

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tundraful.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Smoking doesn't usually look this beautiful.]]

* A big offender of misplacing northern lights would be the ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' series: in both ''City Folk'' and ''New Leaf'', auroras can appears several times during the cold winters, even though if the summer is to be believed, the town's climate is ''nowhere'' near polar.

* The Summit stage, which is the Ice Climbers' home stage in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros: Brawl]]'', is (at the start of the fight at least) located on top of a frozen moutain bathed in the shimmering lights of auroras borealis.