The sun has been very active with many coronal holes or sunspots stretched across its equator.
Several of these coronal mass ejections hit earths magnetosphere last night, causing aurora that could be seen into the southern United States.
Here it was cloudy but it is always worth a look. Willow and I took off for the creek and followed it around to the backside of the mountain. We walked to the bottom of Lisa’s trees.
It had rained, and was muddy and slippery hoovering around freezing. The cloud covered sky was odd looking, bruised in places, glowing here and there. I could tell something was going on above the clouds. We walked around, Willow seemed equally taken back not making a peep. We waited around peering above the trees until I was sufficiently damp and cold.
Today, the truck is covered in mud, especially where Willow sits. She is close to the ground and acts like a shaggy mop head in such weather. Reports say it was a fantastic display of Aurora, seen as far south as Florida. Tonight could be the same. It is still cloudy without promise of letting up. Willow and I will probably stay in close to the fireplace.
Palliser Pass 
mountaincoward
Those clouds give it a pretty weird effect. It’s been low cloud and rain more or less every day here for the last few weeks – going to start freezing next week though…
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underswansea
We have had some below 0 temps but the ground still isn’t frozen. I am expecting it to cloud over and not clear up until March.
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mountaincoward
we had really bad flooding today – all the traffic from the roads round about diverted to our little lane (which was also flooded) and spent all morning turning round on our grass verges and in our driveways! It did have a road closed notice on…
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Jim R
I’m glad you got to see it even if it was a bit muted. Nothing here in the Seattle area.
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underswansea
Yes very cloudy! If the weather holds true to recent years it could stay cloudy until March. I hope you are enjoying your visit.
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Julie@frogpondfarm
Damp, cold and muddy .. but what a great shot!
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underswansea
It wasn’t a nice night. How do the spuds look?
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Julie@frogpondfarm
Be good when they get planted 😊
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