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[Ruth]

I live in eastern Pennsylvania. It's been snowing since about 4 AM. We have accumulated about 12 inches of snow. It is 10 degrees with a wind chill of -8. Wind is about 18 mph. They are forecasting the snow to stop at 11 PM. I am fortunate that I still have heat, electricity and cable. I planned on doing one of Laura's meditations for protection tonight. Stay safe.

I'll be thinking of you all while I'm sweltering in 46 deg C (115 deg F) heat on Tuesday, followed up 24 deg C (75 deg F) on Wednesday. Melbourne weather is attrocious in that respect. It's going to kill all the flowers on my roses.

I'm hoping not too many people or wildlife suffer or die, or too many air-conditioners or power supplies break. I really hate the heat. I also hope there's no more fires. Apart from the devastation they cause, they make the air smell foul.

 

[genero81]

Things are fairly dire in Nashville. I would say 35- 40% of residents are without power. Artic air is flowing in, flash freezing everything and brisk winds are expected to cause more tree damage to power lines. Temperatures are not supposed to get out of the teens tomorrow. By some miracle my electricity is still on, but it went out briefly just a short while ago. Keeping my fingers crossed. Last count was a quarter of a million without power. I can hear many emergency vehicles in the distance.

 

[Meg]

I read some of what's happening in Tennessee and Nashville. Stay safe and warm over there. I hope your power stays on.

 

[Beau]

Things are fairly dire in Nashville.

Yeah Tennessee looks to have gotten much worse than North Carolina. My family is 2 hours south of Nashville and they have no power, tree branches falling left and right, and the transformer and power lines are down blocking the driveway so they can't drive anywhere. Then tonight the arctic air swoops in. It's not good.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2015535968091037730

 

[Mark7]

Things are fairly dire in Nashville. I would say 35- 40% of residents are without power. Artic air is flowing in, flash freezing everything and brisk winds are expected to cause more tree damage to power lines. Temperatures are not supposed to get out of the teens tomorrow. By some miracle my electricity is still on, but it went out briefly just a short while ago. Keeping my fingers crossed. Last count was a quarter of a million without power. I can hear many emergency vehicles in the distance.

Power went out here around 1 pm. It's 6:30 now and still out. I have a small generator for a space heater, and we also have a buddy heater. We are fine otherwise. Roads are semi-passable, so I expect the situation to improve by tomorrow and Tuesday, but we are in for a couple of very chilly nights, potentially without power.

 

[genero81]

I have a friend who has power restored already after eight hours in Lennox Village, so hopefully you will get relief soon @Mark7

 

[Mark7]

Yeah Tennessee looks to have gotten much worse than North Carolina. My family is 2 hours south of Nashville and they have no power, tree branches falling left and right, and the transformer and power lines are down blocking the driveway so they can't drive anywhere. Then tonight the arctic air swoops in. It's not good.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2015535968091037730

3 huge branches of a large tree in the backyard fell, one branch fell on the roof, but it has not done much damage, I think. It made a huge noise when it fell, waking me up this morning. Frost booms and strange noises all over. Trees are down everywhere. Rather serious.

 

[Beau]

North Mississippi looks really bad too.

https://www.facebook.com/100044544121634/posts/1416082576553200

WORSE CASE scenario for icing has unfolded in North Mississippi. This ice Storm may leave many without power for two weeks. Now, they face SINGLE DIGIT OVERNIGHT LOWS tonight and tomorrow, with highs in the low 20s.

Electricity is needed to heat most homes there so water pipes inside the home may burst when ultimately frozen. Even though the storm is ending, many of their problems have only just started. Everyone in the blackout zone, now exceeding 1,000,000 households, need to be careful with carbon monoxide poisoning risks in using various means to stay warm. (Never run a generator indoors or too close to the home, never heat the house with a camping stove, never run a vehicle in the garage, in an effort to stay warm. It sounds basic, but sometimes logic escapes in stress situations.)

I've personally seen it like this before, in March 1993 in New England, as the silence of the snowscape is interrupted every few minutes with the blast of a shotgun sound, as large limbs and trees spit and fall. It's creepy to hear, and worse, knowing that every break means power could be out that much longer.

 

[Gwenllian]

3 huge branches of a large tree in the backyard fell, one branch fell on the roof, but it has not done much damage, I think. It made a huge noise when it fell, waking me up this morning. Frost booms and strange noises all over. Trees are down everywhere. Rather serious.

I found this short clip of these strange noises (it does sound like shotguns or fireworks?) plus power lines exploding. I hope you all stay warm and safe.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2015605580644167957

 

[Magnolia]

Ryan Hall Y'All casually mentioned another storm following this one. But he added, "Let's just deal with one storm at a time. Well get to that one when this one is over." That got my antenna up, and I've been keeping an eye on next week's projections.

Today, Wunderground weather started projecting snow for next Sunday/Monday in New England, as well as some more southern states. Wunderground changes its projections constantly, which can be irritating, but at least it tries to stay a week ahead.

Probably worth keeping an eye on it. I got 16-18 inches, and have nowhere to shovel the next batch of snow. I was hoping it would melt before it snowed again; but that's not going to happen.

 

[Mrs. Peel]

I live in eastern Pennsylvania. It's been snowing since about 4 AM. We have accumulated about 12 inches of snow. It is 10 degrees with a wind chill of -8. Wind is about 18 mph. They are forecasting the snow to stop at 11 PM. I am fortunate that I still have heat, electricity and cable.

I'm in Western Pennsylvania, about the same amount of snow and currently 11 deg and won't get much higher for the rest of the week. Still snowing a bit, storm watch is until noon today. Still have power, heat, and internet Roads in front of the house are barely touched. I struggled to shovel the driveway about three times yesterday and fortunately a neighbor came buy twice with a snowblower, but it needs done again. We've got nowhere to go today, but need to get out tomorrow early for a doctor appointment.

 

[LQB]

Yeah Tennessee looks to have gotten much worse than North Carolina. My family is 2 hours south of Nashville and they have no power, tree branches falling left and right, and the transformer and power lines are down blocking the driveway so they can't drive anywhere. Then tonight the arctic air swoops in. It's not good.

Franklin, Tennessee ice storm damage. It looks like a war zone all over Nashville area with trees collapsing under massive amounts of ice. It may get worse as temperatures are now dropping and winds are increasing. pic.twitter.com/UpA1BzaZEM— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) January 25, 2026

I'm close to your family in mid-south Tenn Lawrence Co. I lost power early am yesterday. A failed solar inverter forced me to configure the generator to power the main panel. Power was restored in the evening. The gen kept the heating system (via outdoor boiler) going fine but I now have no power to the well pump house - so no water to the house. I use red/IR bulb in the pump house to keep the hardware from freezing. So everything in the pump house will freeze soon if I can't find the problem.

The county electric company did pretty good getting power back to most folks, but local news is suggesting that more outages may happen due to more falling tree limbs and wind. They are saying that some areas to my north may not see power restored for 2-7 days. Outages get much worse to the north of me towards Nashville.

 

[Kadam303]

Rare auroral glow detected within South Atlantic Anomaly during January 19 severe geomagnetic storm

Rare auroral glow detected within South Atlantic Anomaly during January 19 severe geomagnetic storm​

ByRishav Kothari Saturday, January 24, 2026
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Severe geomagnetic storm on January 19, 2026, generated a rare auroral glow inside the South Atlantic Anomaly, a region where Earth’s magnetic field is significantly weaker. Photographers in Brazil captured a diffuse purple band over Cambará do Sul during peak geomagnetic activity, documenting the latest in rare instances of possible auroral or SAR arc activity within the anomaly.



>> i wonder and look forward for data regarding skin cancers and plant failures from that area.

 

[dennis]

Here in upstate SC we missed the worst of it. Late yesterday afternoon I noticed the bird feeder got unbusy early, so thought that is not a good sign they decided to go to roost, but no power outages so far. Temps are to get above freezing today before going into the teens tonight. A short window of opportunity to clean off porches and steps before it refreezes.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2015216642968674311

 

[Aeneas]

Near the town of Niscemi in Sicily there was a big landslide yesterday. It is a different part of Sicily to the other reports about storm damage. The video itself speaks to the scale of the damage:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2015775997266710902

Here is a geological analysis of what happened there What happened with the Niscemi landslide in Sicily and what is a sliding landslide: geological analysis