Possible Aurora visible this weekend

[peterk]

Geomagnetic Disturbance Alert
23rd August 2013
British Geological Survey
Two Earth directed coronal mass ejections (CME) both associated with solar filament eruptions left from the Sun on the 20th and 21st August. The first shock arrival is expected late on August 23rd, with the second anticipated on the 24th.

The combined effects of these two CMEs and a high speed solar wind stream from a coronal hole could cause a geomagnetic storm thus increasing the chance of viewing the aurora over the weekend.

For more information and to keep up to date with developments please see our website:
http://www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/data_service/space_weather/alerts/alert_2013-08-23.html

For more advice on viewing the Northern Lights please visit:
http://www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/education/viewing_aurora.html

For current UK activity levels please see:
http://www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/education/current_activity.html



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[bograt]

Met Office for Peak District;

Saturday
A cloudy day with rain at times. Some of the rain is expected to be heavy and thundery, with the most persistent rain expected in the east of the Park, with western parts most likely to have some drier spells, especially later in the day. Extensive hill fog.
Visibility
Generally moderate or poor, and very poor in and near hill fog.


Sunday
It may well be another cloudy start to the day with periods of hill fog, particularly over northern and eastern hills. However, this will lift and break up through the morning, with summits becoming clear of cloud later by the afternoon. Small risk of an afternoon shower.
Visibility
Moderate or poor at first, and very poor in early hill fog, becoming generally good or very good.


Monday;
Some early valley mist or fog patches likely but clearing by midmorning to leave a mostly dry, bright day with sunny spells and broken cloud. An odd isolated shower is possible during the afternoon. Winds generally light throughout the day.


Lived up here for over 30 years, only seen it 3 times, mainly eery white shifting glow, weird but not spectacular, does inspire awe though!.

 

[Burt]

No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets and yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us.

At midnight on the twelfth of August, a huge mass of luminous gas erupted from Mars and sped towards Earth. Across two hundred million miles of void, invisibly hurtling towards us were the first of the missiles that were to bring so much calamity to Earth. As I watched, there was another jet of gas. It was another missile starting on its way.

 

[JasonC]

Wot yoo bin drinkin', Burt ?

 

[danthecavingman]

Bloody hell Burt!

You sound just like that Richard Burton chap!

D.

 

[Pitlamp]

HGW was indeed a grand master of tale telling . . . .