On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:02:58 +0000, MadCow wrote:

In message , cloud
dreamer writes

There's a great picture of the UK covered in snow on spaceweather right now:

http://www.spaceweather.com/


Welcome to Usenet! By the time your post propagates to Yokels.net or
wherever ISP, Spaceweather says there's a huge sunspot forming, which
is news because we're just pulling out of a sunspot recession.

Apparently one good coronal mass ejection could be the end of
civilisation as we know it, because we're so dependant on electricity
and large networks just explode if a space storm hits them!

Here's the "Iceberg England" image for any that missed it:

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/g...7.1150.1km.jpg

And it does look like ol' Sol finally got the memo - there have been
some rather impressive sunspots in the last few weeks.

Here's one I photographed last month using thin clouds as a solar
filter. Really need to go buy some welder's glass... The currently
visible sunspot appears to be the same one I photographed, one solar
rotation later.

Bob ^,,^