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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia WWW.EARTHQUAKENEWSTODAY.COM A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 120 km SSW of Ust'-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia (75 miles) The temblor was...

Decrease in snow cover and little change in the sea ice cover.

It is the same over here in South Ockendon, the wind is noisy and I have heard a few bangs as though heavy items have fallen down. The winds are blowing a hooley outside, the rain is lashing down.

Silso Sunspot Index has 5 sun spotless days for January. It usually reports less sunspots than Spaceweather, I wonder if they have changed the method on how they count sun spots.

I went out and took a video of the storm clouds:

Sakurajima Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA IS NOT IDENTIFIABLE IN SATELLITE IMAGERY. WWW.VOLCANODISCOVERY.COM Sakurajima volcano (Japan): news & eruption updates FVFE01 at 11:50 UTC, 13/01/20 from RJTD VA ADVISORY DTG: 20200113/1150Z VAAC: TOKYO VOLCANO: SAKURAJIMA [AIRA CALDERA] 282080 PSN: N3136 E13039 AREA: JAPAN SUMMIT ELEV: 1117M ADVISORY NR: 2020/36 INFO SOURCE: HIMAWARI-8 AVIATION COLOUR CODE: NIL ERUPTION DETAILS: VA IS NOT IDENTIFIABLE IN SATELLITE IMAGERY. OBS VA DTG: 13/1120Z OBS VA CLD: VA NOT IDENTIFIABLE FM SATELLITE DATA WIND FL180 260/58KT FCST VA CLD +6 HR: NOT AVBL FCST VA CLD +12 HR: NOT AVBL FCST VA CLD +18 HR: NOT AVBL RMK: VA IS NOT IDENTIFIABLE DUE TO MET CLOUD OR HAS DISSIPATED. WE WILL ISSUE FURTHER ADVISORY IF VA DETECTED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY. NXT ADVISORY: NO FURTHER ADVISORIES=

www.sidc.be/silso.com It has today's sunspot count as 0 But Solarham.com Has the sunspot count as 14 and the Solar Flux at 74 Spaceweather.com is still showing yesterday's sunspot count.

Just to make things more confusing Silso.com have recorded 4 sun spotless days so far: 07 January : 0 08 January : 0 09 January : 15 10 January : 0 11 January : 0

According to my outside thermometer that inside the outdoor garden porch, it has the temperature 9.5°C which is different temperature from my automated weather station which says it is 10.7°C. I wonder which is the right temperature.

The time is 14:14 and the the temperature is 10.6°C, the humidity is 73% and the barometric pressure has fallen to 10203. The sky is filled with nimbostratus clouds.

The sun has finally made an appearance in South Ockendon at 13: 48. The clouds have dissipated and now there is a 75% clear sky which is a big difference from what it was 20 minutes ago.

I have just seen my first bumble bee of the year who flying over the hedge in my front garden. The temperature at 11:52 am is 8.7 Celsius and the humidity is 64%. The sky is overcast and the barometric has been rising and it is at 1022.9.

There have been some increases and decreases of sea ice and snow cover.

A day of two halves, sunny in the morning but by the afternoon it became very wet and very mild. The top temperature was just over 13 Celsius. The humidity and the rain is really affecting sinuses and joints badly. Hopefully the promised cold weather will come to fruition.

While currents flowed through the ground, auroras filled the sky. Rayann Elzein photographed the corresponding outburst of lights from Utsjoki, Finland:

Slight increases in sea ice:

More continuous increase of snow:

There have been very slight increases in sea ice and snow cover.

AURORA SURPRISE: No geomagnetic storm? No problem. On Jan. 4th, auroras filled the sky over Ringvassøya, Norway. "What a lovely surprise!" says Gunnar Hildonen, who photographed the outburst:

A strange morning as the temperature approximately 8 am was 11° C and it is 11:39 am and it has gone down to 9.9°C.