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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