Aurora Alert

AURORA ALERT: A geomagnetic storm is in progress. The cause: a solar wind stream is buffeting Earth's magnetic field. Auroras have been sighted in several northern US states, Earth is inside a solar wind stream flowing from a coronal hole, giant Sunspot 923 is big but strangely quiet.

Check out www.spaceweather.com

And of course it's cloudy

There is some person on these boards with a huge amount of bad luck trailing behind them. Whenever a significant event pops up from view in Ireland, the weather is always bad...


...Me? I blame Albert! He always wants it to be cloudy to show off light pollution!

:lol:

X-FLARE: Sunspot 930 has just unleashed another big solar flare, an X3-class explosion at 0240 UT on Dec. 13th. Auroras possible, unlikely to be seen though..as usual.

Ronan Newman
Galway Astronomy fest
www.galwayastronomyclub.ie

Further to this, it has caught the attention of cnn.com...

Solar storm headed for Earth
Space weather forecasters revised their predictions for storminess after a major flare erupted on the sun overnight threatening damage to communication systems and power grids while offering up the wonder of Northern Lights.

"We're looking for very strong, severe geomagnetic storming" to begin probably around mid-day Thursday, Joe Kunches, Lead Forecaster at the NOAA Space Environment Center, told SPACE.com this afternoon.

The storm is expected to generate aurora or Northern Lights, as far south as the northern United States Thursday night. Astronauts aboard the international space station are not expected to be put at additional risk, Kunches said.

Radio communications, satellites and power grids could face potential interruptions or damage, however.

Read the rest of it here .

But what's the point... it's still raining out there!


Seanie.

..Me? I blame Albert! He always wants it to be cloudy to show off light pollution!

Albert got a txt today while it was buckting down to say there was an aurora alert!