August 4th: Part B! Because you can never have too many entries in two days.

[eel_grass]

On Not Seeing the Aurora Borealis

There is this green you get in the warm South Seas, the splashing, laughing dolphin seas, you never see it north of Bermuda, but we were in the North Atlantic and that green just came out of the night and starting blazing, desperate, wild, above us. It was a sail of light, rippling in some higher wind than the cold

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[kutnitijna]

As I understand it, yesterday's coronal mass ejection is estimated to be just the beginning of a relatively intense period of solar magnetic fluctuations*. If the Sun really is undergoing some kind of magnetic El Niño, perhaps there will be more CMEs and a greater chance of low-latitude aurorae.

*Potentially leading to an Earth-scorching prominence in December 2012... Kidding, kidding!