(The usual caption to the seven day forecast image is “yeah,” and “all the stuff above is happening.”)

We would normally update the overnight developments on existing streams of our chaotic current events with some pithy observations. We are not going to have to do that, since there are reports of a coming storm that could smack us in the electromagnetic space-face at mid-day today.

Word came out after weather reporting closed yesterday. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) warned all of us to increase our vigilance heading into this Mother’s Day weekend. They say it could be a “G4-level” event, second highest on the scale. Not that we aren’t at heightened readiness about all sorts of improbable stuff these days. But the Experts warn us that it could be as big an event as the one observed back in 1859, the first recorded solar storm.

Back then, Astronomer Richard Christopher Carrington collected some extraordinary data during Solar Cycle 10 of September of that year. At its peak, the event created strong auroral displays reported globally, causing sparking, disruptions and even fires in multiple telegraph stations. You can only imagine the impact on today’s widely connected- and fragile- digital age.

So there is that possible excitement to come, since the effect of a major solar pulse could also take down the power grid, leaving us in the dark this evening. It is a sort of eerie reminder about the possibilities of an atomic blast in Low Earth Orbit, which Moscow has been muttering about for the last few days.

With Mid-Day looming, we will eschew the details on the latest Supreme Court opinion or the salacious details of the Hush Money trial in New York, which is part of a continuing melt down of the LawFare campaign in the current election campaign. We will see how that goes, and we can catch up tomorrow morning. If there is power on the grid and the micro-circuits are chirping happily!

(We are currently riding on the pleasant blue blob to the left. The big boiling thing on the right is the source of the Mother’s Day potential Carrington Event, the bright orb of heaven surrounding the blue place we live. Photo Skywatch Media).,

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