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This is another video talking about that pillar of light in the sky. It was also seen in Alberta, to my surprise. It happened about 11:30 pm and lasted about 15-20 mins, they say. I missed it. He shows photos from Lac la Biche and Rimby (cool shots from Rimby). The guy says he doesn't think it's Steve because Steve is a ribbon of red light not a pillar of white light.

Before that he talks about a rare dust storm in Illinois, mysterious fog showing up in several places in Michigan, and electrical wires going bananas also in Kalamazoo, MI. (9:43)

 
Terrible tornado in London, KY! Somehow, remarkably few deaths in these events, but not this time.
My niece, an RN, lost her roof and garage, but was lucky as every other house on her road was completely destroyed. No trees left standing. She's still (on duty) at the hospital due to the mass casualty situation there.

 
This is another video talking about that pillar of light in the sky.

Spaceweathernews updates the pillar anomaly. In a time-lapse video it can been seen moving vertically across the atmosphere (weird). But if that is aurora on the horizon, the movement is from the south to the north. He explains it now as a satellite deploying Chinese rocket rather then an L-shell surge. A Chinese rocket flying north seen by Nebraska, Idaho and Alberta? Huh?

 
What do they know that they are not saying?
The first US solar storm emergency drill did not go well, last year. But we felt the great need to republish or publish it now for some reason.
By Andrew Paul
Published May 19, 2025 11:59 AM EDT
Massive geomagnetic storms can knock out power, damage satellites, and more.
The federal government released the results of a multiday emergency drill intended to assess our ability to handle the next massive solar storm. Unfortunately, it sounds like there’s a lot of room for improvement. According to a report (link to a pdf link dated 2024) published earlier this month by the Space Weather Operations, Research, and Mitigation (SWORM) task force, institutions across the board need to better coordinate their interoffice responses, at the very least. Meanwhile, educating both themselves and the public on the complexities of cosmic forces that threaten societal infrastructures is a major must that remains unfulfilled.

Governmental emergency response agencies don’t only train for somewhat predictable events like hurricanes, wildfires, and other natural disasters—they need to be prepared for rarer or even far-fetched scenarios. Experts routinely review protocols and options for the next inevitable cataclysmic asteroid strike, for example. But while that kind of cosmic predicament only occurs roughly once every 25,000 years, (the author does not remember the Chelyabinsk meteor, I guess.) massive solar storms happen more frequently. These flare-ups generate gigantic clouds of energized gas and dust that can bombard Earth at speeds of roughly 2 million miles per hour. Such particles subsequently distort the planet’s magnetosphere and produce atmospheric displays like the aurora borealis. But in an interconnected and digitized world, these forces can also wreak havoc on power grids, communications systems, and satellite arrays.

A first-of-its-kind emergency drill​

In order to respond to these threats, government agencies need to coordinate. That is where SWORM comes in. Formed in 2014 to develop and advance national space weather preparedness, SWORM includes agencies like the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The task force hosted its first-ever Space Weather (SWx) Tabletop Exercise (TTX) on May 8 and 9, 2024 across the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and Colorado’s FEMA office. The scenario focused on four modules relating to the fallout from a series of solar events, including loss of GPS functionality, power outages, radio blackouts, orbital satellite communication disruptions, and even extreme radiation exposure for astronauts.
The hypothetical emergency occurred over eight days in early 2028. In this situation, an active solar region begins to flare as it rotates towards a position aimed at Earth. Intensifying this simulated crisis is the variable that a two-astronaut Orion spacecraft crew is en route to the Moon, while another pair of Artemis astronauts are already situated on the lunar surface.

The organizers then asked each participating agency group what protocols they had in place to handle such a priority problem. The results, while productive, laid bare just how difficult it still is for state and national agencies to coordinate on something as fundamentally complex as geomagnetic storms. This related both to the emergency responders themselves and the general public.

“Space weather is a complex subject and its potential impacts are not well understood outside of NOAA and NASA,” reads the report, adding that participants, “without space weather expertise struggled to translate the scientific information and determine what the specific impacts would be on Earth.”

“There is a strong need to educate not only government and agency staff but the general public, as well,” SWORM concluded.

Another issue is that many relevant government institutions lack Continuity of Operations (COOP) plans for solar storms.

“Even those organizations that include space weather in their documents fail to provide clarity regarding how and at what point a COOP would be activated for this type of event,” states the report.

30 minutes or less​

However, even if agencies implement better response protocols and clearly articulate risks to the public, the fact remains that a solar storm’s lead time is incredibly short. Currently, experts are only able to accurately assess the incoming impacts of a coronal mass ejection around 30 minutes before it reaches Earth. SWORM noted “significant discussion was dedicated” to just how little a half an hour’s heads up affords agencies, and suggested developing an advanced warning system—even if it’s imprecise.

Another conclusion was the need to more heavily invest in more advanced space weather satellite systems, along with deploying a new generation of sensors capable of monitoring the complex factors underlying cosmic conditions. This could be accomplished through collaborations with both international partners and private companies.

While the drill’s results aren’t the most comforting, nearly all participants reported leaving the event with a better understanding of solar storms and their consequences, as well as the need for better interagency communications about space weather. Ironically, SWORM couldn’t have asked for a better event grand finale: exactly one day after the meeting, an extreme geomagnetic storm hit Earth that temporarily affected power grids and satellite orbital patterns.
 
France is experiencing a new flood in the South.

Situation update at 3pm from the Préfecture du Var on the bad weather.

➡️Bilan provisional: 3 people dead, two in Le Lavandou and one in Vidauban

flood, France, 2025

‘It was a really violent, nasty, incomprehensible phenomenon’, said the mayor of Le Lavandou, Gil Bernardi, at an impromptu press conference, which included an appearance on BFMTV. 255 mm (10 inch) of water fell in an hour, causing a huge wave‘, he added, describing ’scenes of war‘ with ’roads torn up‘ and ’bridges torn up". ‘There is nothing left, no electricity, no drinking water, no sewage treatment plant’, he also described the situation.


 
So what's up with the massive coronal hole on the Sun at the moment? I find it freaky. We are supposed to be in a solar maximum and that's not common for this part of the cycle. And even for solar minimums, that's a super large hole, and most often holes should be on the poles. Is it caused by the Sun's twin proximity and the 'grounding' of electric energy in the system? And what about the effects on the Earth's climate and geological activity?

This guy covers the solar activity regularly. He often has some interesting things to say:

 
A sun rocket?

From RT Russian Telegram
Bright light pillar noticed at sunset residents of Bryansk and Kursk.

Images from the network.
 

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spaceweather.com
HOUSE-SIZED ASTEROID BUZZES EARTH: Newly discovered asteroid 2025 KF made a close approach to Earth last night—skimming by at a distance of just 0.3 lunar distances (72,000 miles). Australian astrophotographer Dennis Simmons captured the space rock's fleeting visit from Brisbane:
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"I'd been browsing Spaceweather when I noticed the flyby alert," says Simmons. "So I set up to see if I could record this fast-moving NEO."

The 20-meter-wide asteroid was speeding across the night sky at a rate that challenged amateur tracking systems. Simmons relied on NASA JPL Horizons data rather than his mount’s native planetarium software, which was off by nearly 6 degrees. "JPL was bang on the target," he confirmed.

2025 KF was discovered only two days ago by astronomers at the MAP project in Chile's Atacama Desert. Despite its close approach, the asteroid posed no danger to Earth. One day, though, such an advance warning might save us from Armageddon.
 
This guy covers the solar activity regularly. He often has some interesting things to say:

There's indeed a lot of space subjects covered in the video. All the mentioned interactions would deserve a global schema. Here is the coronal hole he mention:

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"A coronal hole is a dark area in the Sun's corona."

The description of the video is a good resume of what he say:
Huge persistent coronal holes on the Sun have begun to weaken the heliosphere - which protects the entire Solar System from galactic cosmic rays - precisely when it should be strongest due to solar maximum. Observational evidence has found a moderate positive correlation between galactic cosmic ray flux and global seismic energy release due to how this cosmic radiation influences the properties of Earth's atmosphere. If the heliosphere is already shrinking from persistent coronal hole high speed streams lowering the dynamic pressure of the solar wind, how might this evolve further as we get closer and closer towards solar minimum when the heliosphere is normally its weakest.
"The heliosphere is the magnetosphere, astrosphere, and outermost atmospheric layer of the Sun. It takes the shape of a vast, tailed bubble-like region of space."
heliosphere
 
Australia: Dust storm - Record floods swamp NSW Mid North Coast as crisis deepens

An intense dust storm north of Adelaide has farmers asking if the dry, red dirt filling the skies across the Mid-North is proof enough that SA should be declared a State of Emergency. Meanwhile, thousands of homes are without power and there are
major delays on one of the northern suburb’s busiest stretcheshttps.

NSW is facing one of its most severe flood emergencies in decades. More than 100 towns and suburbs across greater Sydney, the Central Coast, Hunter Region and Mid-North Coast are at risk of becoming inundated by flooding.
 
Last night a strong wave hit El Majahual beach in La Libertad, El Salvador 🇸🇻
The big wave caused panic and chaos among visitors to the beach.
May 25th, 2025

#Tornado in Puerto Varas, Los Lagos region, Chile 🇨🇱
Damage reported after tornado in Puerto Varas around 15:00 hrs.
Images correspond to the Calle del Salvador sector, in the northern sector of the city.

VIDEO of the 🌪#Tornado in Puerto Varas city of the Lakes Region in southern #Chile.

One of the largest hailstones ever seen by local witnesses. Colt Forney who was near Afton, Texas on Sunday shared images of a hailstone the size of a cantaloupe melon. Approx. 6" (±15 cm) in diameter and weighing at least 1.5 pounds.
 
I can't see this event mentioned on the forum yet - but it is certainly a significant land event although I am unsure what triggered it.

Swiss News Site - Glacier Above Blatten
Evacuation of Village - Blatten, Switzerland

Here are a couple of news articles, and here is a youtube video from a lady - who I believe worked in some sort of geology field from some of the comments she has made - who covers many different geologic or volcanic events. The first five minutes of the video already shows some great graphical evidence of the current event.

Some of the footage of the mountain face splitting away and collapsing is incredible. Currently this shearing side of the mountain is collapsing onto a glacier, so it's a double whammy when the glacier collapses as it seems to be imminently prepared to do.

 

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