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Do you have any loops? I'll take anything you've got since I lost my folder with stuff from that day.

7/6/99 was my greatest storm of all time. There was the initial gust front, then a lull, then a solid wall of white that raced across the lake from the NW. It looked like a heavy snow squall. I stood outside in an absolute whiteout of wind-whipped mist and enjoyed the smell of splintering pines. I saw basically nothing, but nothing has come close to the loudness of the wind ever since. It remains the only time wind has knocked over trees on my property. A+, would enjoy again. Tornado in Barnstead that day, too.

Almost makes me sad that I wasn't awake to know it was missing to the north. I could have worked up quite the frothy rage. I need a summer home around FYV. Those people probably don't even know how good they have it.

Been waiting for my derecho for about 20 years now. Getting impatient.

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I'm sad.

Look how skillfully it depicts me not having the warmth.

No moon tonight, either. All you really need is this link. That dip to near -20bz would have been great had it lasted until dark. This is the front end of a coronal hole that supposedly has a weak CME entangled in it. Should see a sudden jump in the solar wind speed at some point if true. http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/ace-mag-24-hour.gif

Conditions are currently prime for a G2, fyi.

Pretty potent event this afternoon... reached G3. Not much going on now.

Just noticed we missed a potent G3 this evening by a few hours. Nice negative Bz flipped as the sun set. Some residual activity still ongoing right now along the horizon in a very low greenish arc.

Yep. Nice solid G2. Looks like a couple nice coronal holes coming as well.

Perfectly positioned megaspot 2473 spewed a nice full halo CME today during a long duration M1 flare. Definitely going to be some good action around the 30th.

Current activity level is no match for the near full moon. The hazy cirrus clouds aren't helping either. Moon shouldn't be a problem after midnight. The sebec lake cam looks like daylight... guess they set the exposure for moonless nights.

18bt/-17bz is pretty decent. Seems stable and becoming gradually more intense. I have a real hard time buying G4 but G3 is probably a good bet. Southward extent of the oval will probably be reduced regardless of IMF values.

Slow moving or not, it packed a decent punch. Bz has been stable in the -15 to -18 range and a G2 is in progress. Nice glow to the north through gaps in the clouds, but nothing I'm standing outside for.

Two CME's are enroute currently. Both are full halo's, but slow moving and not impressive. However, anytime you get two fired back-to-back there is a possibility of enhanced activity. This one should be of decent duration and will probably peak at a G2 on Saturday'ish.

What a glorious sunspot 2447 is. Couldn't be in a more perfect position... lets hope the M2 flare produced a CME.

These types of events are not a dense cloud of plasma like a CME, they are basically just push brooms that gather things in front of them. You can see this if you look at the graphs... a pronounced spike in density, followed by an increase in the IMF, and then you get into the high speed wind stream. Once you're into that stream (like we are now), the Bt falls to background levels and so even with a 100% south Bz, it's over. This one was pretty good... off the charts density, the Bt peaked near 40 and Bz dipped to -25. That would have been pretty epic BUT it wasn't sustained. Not much will happen when the IMF graph looks like the EKG of a hummingbird.

Some super expensive cameras have lenses capable of realtime video. This one really shows the rapid movement you can get further north. One of my favorites.

Nobody missed anything. Looking at the number of stars in that photo tells me it's a looong exposure or shot with a very high iso. The naked eye probably would have strained to see an imperceptible glow right along the horizon. Yawn. Maybe I'm in the minority, but if I can't see it I really don't care. I don't see the point of taking pictures of a black sky so you can post it and make people think they missed something awesome.

Indeed, the IMF really tanked. Bt had a sharp drop and is very steady at 7, Bz north. With the current numbers, odds of G3 are slim, and G2 is probable. We have extremely high speed solar wind (now gusting over 800km/s) working in our favor which can assist otherwise marginal numbers. Even a minimally southward Bz should perform. At the current speed, the reported conditions provide a 33 minute lead time.

Lisa is. I don't have your number on my new phone.

This is the coronal hole... it's early and extra fast. Solar wind has increased and the last one-minute reading was 700.3 with a BT of 14-20 and a choppy but predominately negative Bz. I could definitely see a G3 with easy naked eye visibility tonight. I see there was indeed a G2 last night. Looking at the ottawa magnetic summary plots, there was a pretty good jolt around 2am, so there was activity. Doesn't look like anyone was looking at the time though.

A disturbance just arrived. Solar wind jumped to 450 with bz of -10, Bt 16. A G2 might break out in about 30 minutes if it holds steady.