X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch

Also: 100 % cloud cover in basically all of Northern Europe :/ Iceland is probably the place to be for the aurora show!

Yep. It's raining pretty hard here in the North East of the UK. Not much point in going to look.

"...geomagnetic storm watch for tomorrow as the cloud could impact our planet as early as 16 UTC on 12 November"

Yep, clouds... clouds everywhere https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/maps-and-charts/cloud-cover...

UK in November... It'll be raining again tomorrow.

Note to non-UK readers:

Most of the time when someone says they are in the “North East of the UK” it’s not some Scotsman up in Shetland it is an English person who is currently in the North East of England.

The North East of England is in the middle part of the UK mainland.

It's raining off and on in London as well.

So .. they don't see scotland as part of the UK anyway? Why was it such an issue then that they wanted to leave? (And why were there bloody wars fought about it in the first place?)

In northern Germany, it seems like clouds will clear up tomorrow night, when the CME arrives, according to meteoblue? I can only hope.

Who wanted to leave? What wars?

I think most people say "the North East" as a synecdoche for "the North East of England". the commenter being referred to likely just misspoke

Someone with a tiny little...um...axe to grind and not enough sense to take it someplace where people care. You can tell when they have to go back to Culloden to try and drag something up to wave around.

Similarly, the part of your body commonly referred to as “the bottom” is in fact closer to half-way down and not at the bottom at all.

I will leave any possible joke about being legless after a night out in Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the experts.

Ah, but tonight it's raining protons

No sun ‘til next week :-(

Scotland, 56 degrees north - I was able to see the aurora through occasional gaps in fast moving clouds around 0400hrs. Red, easily visible to the naked eye.

Scotland the UK? (They were allowed to vote in the end and voted to remain)

And wars happened when scotland was forced to become part of the UK in medieval times. (Braveheart)

"Most of the time when someone says they are in the “North East of the UK” it’s not some Scotsman up in Shetland it is an English person who is currently in the North East of England."

So you think this is simply wrong? (Like this)

So Scotland didn’t want to leave. And Scotland didn’t unite with England until after the Scottish King took over he English throne hundreds of years after the time of William Wallace

You might be confusing the U.K. with the USA where a pet of the country there wanted to leave and were refused and that did lead to war, and that happened far more recently than 700 years ago.

(Wrong reply, too late to delete)

Are we on the same timeline here?

I spoke about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_independence