Re:  Weather   
     By: Roger Nelson to All on Sat May 30 2015 10:46:04   
      
    RN> MAGNETIC FILAMENTS ON THE SUN: With no sunspots actively flaring this   
    RN> weekend, solar activity is low. Or is it? There's more to solar activity   
    RN> than sunspots and flares. "I can't recall ever seeing as many magnetic   
    RN> filaments on the sun as I have this month," points out amateur astronomer   
    RN> John W. O'Neal of Amherst, Ohio. "This composite image is my tribute to   
    RN> the filament-ridden sun of May 2015."    
      
     I've got to say, I haven't been watching the sun for that long; basically   
   just since the start of the maxima this time around, but the amount of   
   filaments on there is breathtaking lately.  I guess I don't know from   
   experience that it's a huge amount compared to normal for this part of settling   
   into the minima, but the very fact that some of these filaments are large   
   enough so that, if they launched in the right vector, they could set us back to   
   the stone age really blows my mind a bit.   
      
     -D   
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