Proof the geomagnetic field weakens. Storm chaser Dean Cosgrove drove across rural Nebraska on Aug. 17th. "I was after the lightning," he says. Instead, his camera revealed
a beautiful display of Northern Lights. G1 minor storm from a glancing blow of a small CME caused that.
High M class flare, almost a X from the incoming spot along the incoming
eastern limb. Complexity looks Beta-gama-delta. Will keep an eye on it. Coronal hole is moving off. CME is not on ENRLIL spiral yet.
Largest earthquake is a 5.3 in Indonesia near where they have taken several 5.0+ shakes.
Radio disruption was hit by KP 5 solar storms in the 5MHz band, but not much higher.
US debt crosses 40 trillion. It took America 200 years to reach the first 1 trillion during President Regan's term.
It took 95 days from 5/18 to 8/18 to add the same amount. The rate of change is speeding up. One day it will take less than 60 days to add one trillion dollars. For a sense of scale, the daily interest on the national debt is over three billion dollars -
Per Day: ~$3.18 billion
In five days that almost 16 billion dollars, enough to buy two aircraft carriers: Cash
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