Planet Diary

Planet Diary tracks the daily pulse of the planet with an eye on protecting its precious resources and inhabitants.

[Space Weather Watch @spacewxwatch]

Apologies I will not be able to respond to everyone's request for an aurora forecast for their city tonight, but please locate yourself on this map! You want to be north of the red line and in the blue for the best chance at seeing aurora tonight, so long as the geomagnetic storm holds in intensity!

[Justin frantzen 🌪 @JustinFrantzen8]

Kp4 for my location!

[Space Weather Watch @spacewxwatch]

Darkness can't come fast enough for the United States and Canada! A powerful geomagnetic storm is now underway.

[Space Weather Watch @spacewxwatch]

(UPDATED) TONIGHT'S AURORA FORECAST:
Based on current data, we've moved our possible Northern Lights viewing farther south. A moderate, strong, or severe geomagnetic storm is possible.
Aurora viewing is likely in the United States tonight as Earth is impacted by a strong solar storm. The most favorable cloud conditions look to be over the Midwest, Plains and parts of the Great Lakes and less favorable conditions in the Northeast and Northwest.

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New super sharp view (on right) of black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy.

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El Niño is back again! This is what it often means:

[World Climate Service @WorldClimateSvc]

Remarkably, the eastern equatorial Niño1+2 SST anomaly is already approaching +3°C, a degree of warmth only seen in the strongest El Niño episodes of recent decades.

On a monthly basis, Niño1+2 exceeded +2.5°C in 1982-83, 1997-98, and July 2015.

(OISSTv2.1, ERSSTv5 data)

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Mind warping view of supernova Cassiopeia A from the Webb Space Telescope

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Hang on to your hats this afternoon!!

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Translation: Crazy winds esp. along the coast and up in the hills as yet another atmospheric river drenching comes our way on Monday night.

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The upside to the nonstop atmospheric river parade!

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Another massive atmospheric river about to slam California. Lookout!

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Expected rainfall totals in Northern California this weekend. Stay safe!

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Nonstop heavy rains make big dent in California’s mega drought!

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Rivers of lava blazing from Hawaii’s #MaunaLoa volcano!

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Deadly quake strikes Indonesia!

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Tropical Storm #Nicole swirls in Atlantic, takes aim at Florida.

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@drewmagary Thanks for the great article on Kylie’s hateful ridiculousness on SFGATE!

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Cold snap coming to West, warm spell to East this weekend!

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75% chance of La Niña weather pattern this winter.