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Let's see where we go from here, lovely charts..
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Found this funny from early'er. Looks like a man up the pole now on the webcam, so hopefully not long before we get our power back on at Glencoe Mountain Resort.....
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According to Spaceweather.com it's from the complex facing Earth - AR1890 - but was probably too brief to have any major effects here.
ANOTHER X-FLARE: Big sunspot AR1890 is crackling with strong flares. The latest, which peaked on Nov. 8th at 04:32 UT, registered X1 on the Richter Scale of Flares. (Note: Earlier, we underestimated the intensity of this flare as M.8.)http://www.spaceweather.com/
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Maybe for the South yes.Brilliant? The models aren't showing anything like cold and snow in the foreseeable future.Blind optimism maybe.
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John Hammond said expect some sharp frosts this weekend and more snow over the Scottish Mountains and even down to lower levels over Northern hills of the Pennines. A chilly day here with temps still below the seasonal average of which looks set to continue bar the far South.
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A nice clear start to the morning here with a slight ground frost, cloud had bubbled up over the last hour with light rain due around 2/3pm.
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Some of the best sunsets and sunrises i have ever seen during December 2010, with that lovely low orange glow reflecting off the snow and ice... Many a morning i would walk up onto the moor to witness it.Cloudy wet days make all the difference at this time of year. On such days it can be dark by 4.15pm. However, sunny days such as we saw on Monday maintain decent light levels until nearly 5pm.Come December a wet overcast day quickly turns into dark skies by 3.15pm. Wet overcast skies in the morning can mean little light until 9am in early January.Thank goodness we have christmas to brighten up the darkest period of the year.However, I always look forward to starry frosty evenings in December and awaking to crisp blue sky mornings with frost on the ground at this time of year through until February. Something special about watching the sunrise on such mornings and setting on cold frosty clear sky days in winter - December especially - loved December 2010 for this reason.
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A clear cool start today, with a slight ground frost. An overnight low of 2.7c.
Temp 3.2c
Dp 2.7c
Wind Chill 2.3c
Wind South 3mph
Rain since midnight 0.0mm
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X Flare a few hours ago, no idea where from yet...
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Comet ISON Heats Up, Grows New Tail
Two faint tail streamers are visible between Comet ISON’s green coma and bright star near center. in this photo taken on Nov. 6. They’re possibly the beginning of an ion tail. Click to enlarge. Credit: Damian Peach
I’m starting to get the chills about Comet ISON. I can’t help it. With practically every telescope turned the comet’s way fewer than three short weeks before perihelion, every week brings new images and developments. The latest pictures show a brand new tail feature emerging from the comet’s bulbous coma. For months, amateur and professional astronomers alike have watched ISON’s slowly growing dust tail that now stretches nearly half a degree or a full moon’s diameter. In the past two days, photos taken by amateur astronomers reveal what appears to be a nascent ion or gas tail. Damian Peach’s Nov. 6 image clearly shows two spindly streamers.
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/106205/comet-ison-heats-up-grows-new-tail/#ixzz2jzguMz84
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That last chart is a corker posted by Cloud 10. A full on cross pole Northerly.
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RACING TOWARD THE SUN: Comet ISON is now inside the orbit of Earth and racing toward the sun. Last night, astronomer Alberto Quijano Vodniza of Pasto, Colombia, recorded the comet moving through space at 103,000 mph (46 km/s). Click to set the scene in motion:
"The movie shows the comet's motion over 27 minutes," says Vodniza. Watch it again. "We also caught a satellite."
On Nov. 28th, Comet ISON will fly through the sun's atmosphere little more than a million kilometers above the sun's fiery surface. This raises a question: Is Comet ISON racing toward its doom? Astronomer Matthew Knight of the Lowell Observatory thinks the comet might withstand the heat:
"At its closest point to the Sun, the equilibrium temperature approaches 5000 degrees Fahrenheit, hot enough to cause much of the dust and rock on ISON’s surface to vaporize," says Knight. "While it may seem incredible that anything can survive this inferno, the rate at which ISON will likely lose mass is relatively small compared to how big it likely is. Assuming that the comet's nucleus is bigger than about 200 meters in radius (current estimates suggest it is 500-2000 m in radius), it will likely survive. It helps that the comet is moving very fast, about 400 km/s at perihelion, so it will not remain long at such extreme temperatures."
If Comet ISON does survive its encounter with the sun, it could put on a good show for backyard astronomers in the northern hemisphere in December. The next few weeks will tell the tale.http://www.spaceweather.com/
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkBxj87Cnv8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm_LTsl9kU0
BIG SUNSPOT FACES EARTH: AR1890, one of the biggest sunspots of the current solar cycle, has turned almost directly toward Earth. This raises the possibility of geoeffective eruptions in the days ahead. NOAA forecasters estimate a 45% chance of M-class flares and a 10% chance of X-flares on Nov. 7th.
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After some sunny spells during the morning and early afternoon, showers formed and grew into longer periods of light rain, Thick Fog formed down to 170m. Light rain has started to turn moderate at times.
Currently; Thick Fog with light/moderate rain.
Temp 6.9c
Dp 6.2c
Wind Chill 6.9c
Wind S/E 3mph
Humidity 97%
Rain since midnight 2.3mm
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A dry cloudy night with some breaks, with an overnight low of 5.1c.
Currently; Dry and cloudy with light winds.
Temp 5.9c
Dp 5c
Wind Chill 3.6c
Wind West 5mph
Rain since midnight 0.0mm
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Yes Gorky, and the 3rd largest flare of Solar Cycle 24 ! http://www.solarham.net/top10.txt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXAoSUiuV78
SOLAR FLARE CAUSES RARE 'MAGNETIC CROCHET': On Nov. 5th at 22:12 UT, the magnetic canopy of sunspot AR1890 erupted, producing a brief but intense X3-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash:
Radiation from the flare caused a surge in the ionization of Earth's upper atmosphere--and this led to a rare magnetic crochet.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ3ELq6-EVY
BIG SUNSPOT TURNS TOWARD EARTH: One of the biggest sunspots of the current solar cycle emerged over the sun's eastern limb three days ago and now it is turning toward Earth. This movie from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the approach of sunspot AR1890:
AR1890 has an unstable 'beta-gamma-delta' magnetic field that harbors energy for strong explosions. http://www.spaceweather.com/
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The Snow Groomers have just arrived at Glencoe.. :-)
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Its snowing as we speak on Nevis Range.
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We all know how things can change at the flip of a hat, just look at last March and December 09/10.
All to play for, with 3 weeks left of Autumn still to go yet.
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Winter has started in the Lakeland Fells.. vid does not want to upload from phone. Type in Helvellyn start of winter, at Vimeo.com.
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Super Typhoon Haiyan
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Horrific, I hope they get all the help they need.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lov8KfSrpwk