[TheForge] Burning Metal or Aurora?

Thu Nov 6 07:21:04 2003

Jerry, when I first heard of the bunch of solar flares I found
http://science.nasa.gov and signed up for their email list (lunar eclipse
next Wed).  This whole past week it's been cloudy here, too except for one
night, been checking most morning and evenings.  I fortunately got to see
the aurora a couple of times when I lived in WA.  One was red and pulsing,
localized on the horizon in the summer at dusk, the next time was radiating
across the whole sky, green and white fall/winter time.

Kevin

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Subject: [TheForge] Burning Metal or Aurora?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Donahoe" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 3:06 AM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Re: Burning Metal

> Ralph,
>
> If you're going to try some of this, let the rest of us know, so those of
us
> to the south can tell if it's the Aurora Borealis... or Bear Hill!
>
> Kevin
>

Gee THANKS Kevin!

Mention seeing the Aurora WAY down south and rub it in why dontcha! Here
we're having earth directed coronal mass ejections on a weekly basis. The
last one so big it's visible in S. Texas and here I sit in nice DARK Meadow
Lakes AK. miles from light pollution and it's been overcast for every one!
One clear night several days after the first (little #2) ejection and the
aurora here was so bright and active there were shadows dancing on the
ground. Overcast and rainy solid since the recent large (#4) ejection though
it was only foggy a few days afterwards and you could see the aurora as hazy
lights THROUGH the fog!

I just heard on the news tonight there was another even bigger coronal mass
ejection, off the scale this time so they're calling it a coronal explosion.
And . . . oh . . . yeah! It's forcast for rain and maybe snow (good news if
it happens) for the forseeable future! <GRRRRRR>

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.

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