With reports emerging of an aurora in the north of the UK,
this could be quite an interesting evening for astronomers.

At 7:09pm today, I observed a slow-moving fireball (very
bright meteor) to the WNW in the evening twilight sky from
a country lane about 2 miles southwest of Romsey. Lasting
for some 3 seconds, it had a large nucleus with a short
tail and slowly descended from left to right at roughly
30 degrees elevation.

Had the sky been completely dark and had I not viewed
the meteor through a car windscreen, it might have been
a spectacular sight.

Nigel (Romsey, Hampshire)

On Tuesday, 21 March 2017 21:46:59 UTC, Nigel Paice wrote:
With reports emerging of an aurora in the north of the UK,
this could be quite an interesting evening for astronomers.

At 7:09pm today, I observed a slow-moving fireball (very
bright meteor) to the WNW in the evening twilight sky from
a country lane about 2 miles southwest of Romsey. Lasting
for some 3 seconds, it had a large nucleus with a short
tail and slowly descended from left to right at roughly
30 degrees elevation.

Had the sky been completely dark and had I not viewed
the meteor through a car windscreen, it might have been
a spectacular sight.

Nigel (Romsey, Hampshire)

Thanks for reminding me about solar behaviour during the periods. I wasn't interested in the report of snow earlier even though I am familiar with Powys and how bloody cold it can get there.

21 March 2017.
M 5.5 - 2km NE of Banjar Pasekan, Indonesia.

We already have a derecho situation in North America as well as an extra-Tropical storm off Japan of 111kph
(why Nullschool persist in using ridiculous Napoleonic error prone metrics is beyond me, I think they have confused Globalism with physics.)

Whatever the case with the lack of skilled choices from an otherwise fairly useful tool. We have the closure required for our tropical storm:

Date and Time 2017-03-21 at 23:10 (UTC)
Location 8.614°S 115.302°E
7 hours and 2 days after:
6.0 M. 68km N of Auki, Solomon Islands 2017-03-19 15:43:25 (UTC.)

That is 55 hours on the Froude Beaufort scale. Not that anyone from this abridged generation is likely to get the gamut of what I am saying.

http://weatherlawyer.altervista.org/ok-wheres-storm/