SOLAR FLARE - THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING (PDF-1839)

I am on the road and have crossed the 45th parallel, headed to the top of the Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in hope of seeing the potentially-strong aurorae Saturday night caused by this current CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) event. The huge tide of geo-magnetically-charged solar plasma will sweep past Earth in the next couple of hours. It is 5:30 AM right now and I am near the top of the mitten, as we say in Michigan, and will soon cross the Mackinac Bridge into the U.P. From there I will travel up to the town of Brimley near the Canadian border, about as far north as I can get on the eastern side of Michigan. My daughter Anne, Emma, and her family are minding the home front and taking care of the dogs. I spent most of Friday at the Blissfest Music Festival near Bliss, Michigan where my daughter May and her husband Seth Bernard were performing. The temperature soared somewhere in the 90s, so it was hot. The Bliss Festival is one of the finest music festivals in the Midwest, and harkens back to the 1960s in quality and spirit. I heard a little of the Nitty-Gritty Dirt Band, and some Corey Harris, not to mention my daughter and/or her husband Seth several times.