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Daily Update Morning News - 2026-08-05 (Wednesday)

Bud

Facula: The Bright Spot
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United-States
Good morning everyone!

** This is scheduled thread that is automatically generated daily at 6am US CDT Central Daylight Time / 11am UTC. **

Anyone is free to post the daily summary of current & relevant solar or earth events, publications, etc.
 
Looks like the morning news stuttered. Good morning observers. A bit more activity but quiet.
Very small conal hole facing earth, just below the sun's equator. Small C class CME "puff" CME to hit earth around the 7th.
Kp index low, flattening out. ENLIL spiral shows one CME coming directly for us, that is a small class C.
Eathquakes - The Indo-Australian Plate, had pair of 6.3 and one 5 in India. Marked on the graph
HF radio absorption is so quiet I thought it was dead. Very good day for long distance radio communication.
In other news
Silver is climbing. Up yesterday and this morning. $62.95.
Texas governor Abbot puts a moratorium on new data centers as the Texas power grid Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is running near full capacity. They want to add 474 GWatts, which is more than twice the 162 GW capacity of the 3rd largest grid segment PJM. Yeah. PJM covers data center ally in northern Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Washington D.C., Ohio, West Virginia and New Jersy (Parts of North Carolina, Kentucky and Illinois), Add two power grids worth of drain to Texas.

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