CME ROGUE

Well, this morning my personal weather station (PWS) is playing up. I know it can't be the 'Jamming' fiasco, but wondering if a rogue CME is causing intermittent data being picked up on the PWS. It's going from 11mph to 0mp then back up to 13mph and back to 0mph. Mechanically, the anemometer wouldn't be able to do that, unless there's a gremlim perched on the roof, poking a stick in the spokes. So I can only conclude that it's the cause of these good old CMEs.

THREE EXPLOSIONS: Three coronal mass ejections (CMEs) blasted away from the sun in quick succession during the late hours of April 5th: movie. The clouds were propelled by magnetic filaments erupting in various locations around the sun's northern hemisphere. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded this explosion, the most potent of the three:http://spaceweather.com/images2012/06apr12/uvglow_strip2.jpg
The movie shows a filament connected to sunspot AR1450 rising up and snapping. In the aftermath of the eruption, an arcade of hot-glowing magnetic loops forms over the blast site as a "canyon of fire" illuminates the empty filament channel.

Remarkably, given their number, not one of the CMEs appears to be heading for our planet. This conclusion is only tentative, however, because of visual confusion among the three clouds. Stay tuned for updates.

Loads of Serif CDs arrived this morning, so off to play with them and forget about all thing terrestrial. Happy crafting :) Susan