Today should be milder with temps climbing into the mid 50s. Though winds will pick up from the south and a round of showers arrive tonight and tomorrow. The cold front is going to bring widespread showers and gusts reaching 40 mph are possible but the majority should stay under advisory levels and it won't be as windy as last Friday's storm. The rain clears by Thursday evening and back to the chilly side for Friday.
- A big plume of rain and storms along a cold front stretching from the Great Lakes to Texas is trekking east.
- Haiyan in the Western Pacific has been upgraded to a Super Typhoon with max winds of 155 mph, gusting at 190 mph, and aiming straight at the Philippines. A serious storm looks inevitable... I hope they are all prepared to ride it out.
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| Haiyan is a powerful typhoon that needs to be taken seriously (Credit: CIMSS) |
- A weak tropical depression is hitting Vietnam.
- Continued rain shower activity for Europe
- Storms for southern Australia
- There were no earthquakes rated at or above M6 since the last update yesterday.
- Sunspot 1890 unleashed a powerful X3.3-class solar flare which is the strongest since March of 2012 and ranks 3rd largest in this solar cycle. No real affects with this one... the flare was very impulsive and short in duration. A small CME was confirmed but most, if not all, stays south of Earth and it was weak anyways. Sunspot 1890 will need to be watched for additional flaring, becoming Earth-facing in the next couple days. A new sunspot group may be forming on the sun's eastern limb and on the central disk.
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| Sunspot 1890 produced a X3.3-class flare as shown on the Xray flux (Credit: NOAA) |
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| Two new sunspot groups may be forming. (Credit: SolarHam.net) |
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