Daily Update Morning News - 2026-08-14 (Friday)

[Bud]

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.

 

[TechnoCaveman]

Yay it is FRIDAY. Good morning Observers. The sun is quiet but not spotless. We have seven this morning. 2026 has had three (3) spotless days, but not today.
Earth directed C-4 storm. Logarithmic scale makes it hard for me tell.
I do not see the storm on ENLIL spiral, will check later.
5.3 in the Philippines with a couple of 5.2. One 2.3 in Oklahoma and in Texas.
Lake Powell has not updated its website water level since Aug 12. Lake Mead continues to drop; current level 1039.8. Romania shut down one of it large power plants due to Danube running low. Instead of creating electricity, it is now a load on the grid. Power runs security, monitoring and cooling pumps. With all the control rods in, the core remains hot enough to boil off the cooling water. Yes, standby generators can take over.
Thanks for all the great tweets that people have found and shared. Please share what you have because others do not have them. I know I did not.
Lastly, it is hopefully a good day to go walking. Winter is coming. The heat will abate.













ddd

 

[Bud]

Just got an alert for a 7.7 near Indo