Holy cow, most of Europe is glowing pink right now under the aurora! foto-webcam.eu/webcam/luckner…

Mother forking shirtballs, it's really kicking off at STEREO-A (which is a few hours ahead of Earth, in solar wind terms.)

Total field ~80nT, with a lot of that southward, maybe -75 nT?!. This is going to be big when it reaches Earth.

stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/beacon/beacon_…

CTA is one of very few major transit agencies that continues to cut rail service.

Leadership had 3 years to fix this by hiring more rail operators. Time is up, we need leaders who know how to run rail transit.

The Sun just launched multiple Coronal Mass Elections (plasma with embedded magnetic field) at Earth which are combining with each other on the way over. A severe geomagnetic storm is predicted this weekend, meaning auroras are likely to be seen where 'Kp 8' is on the maps below!

Here’s the carrington event sun spot for context

Tomorrow could be bad

Japan doubling its intake of skilled workers to 160,000/year. That's a country a little more than one-third our size. Note the H-1B is still 85,000.