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Twice The Magic - Northern Lights Light Up Muskoka

When the sky dances, Muskoka stands still in awe

The Northern Lights lit up Muskoka on Thursday night, and if you weren’t looking up, you were probably looking at your phone, scrolling through your feed, where it seemed like everyone with a half-decent camera was posting their capture of this cosmic phenomenon.

Northern Lights Muskoka

It's rare. Normally, we’d be considered lucky to catch even a glimpse of the aurora up here, but twice in a year is something special. When there’s a night like that, where nature shows up and goes, "Hey, remember why you love it here?", you put it in the core memory bank.

Now, if you’re like most people, you might be wondering, "How does this light show even happen?"

Northern Lights - Pure Muskoka

The short version: the sun is a bit of a drama queen. Every so often, it throws a fit and flings a bunch of charged particles our way—this is called a solar storm. When these particles hit Earth's magnetic field, they collide with atoms in our atmosphere, and that’s when the magic happens. These collisions release energy, and boom—light show. The colours? That's all about what kind of gas the particles smack into. Oxygen gives us greens and reds, nitrogen? That’s where we get the purples and blues.

Northern Lights - Pure Muskoka

This doesn’t happen everywhere. The auroras are picky, sticking close to the poles, where Earth's magnetic field is stronger. Usually, you’ve got to go to northern Canada or Scandinavia to see it in full force. But sometimes, like the other night, the solar storm is strong enough to bring the lights further south, down to places like Muskoka. This year we got a little extra love by having this happen twice.

Northern Lights T-Shirt

And here’s where the timing gets crazy good — pure coincidence, but we'll take it. We just officially launched our Northern Lights t-shirt, originally from the t-shirt club, but thanks to the votes, it's made its permanent comeback this year. Did we plan this cosmic marketing move? No, but sometimes the stars align. Literally.

So, here’s to Muskoka. Because when you catch something like that—something rare, something beautiful—it stays with you. Just like this place.

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