Sunday, May 12, 2024

Stormy on High

This short post is a quick comment or two regarding some high level auroral activity on the Earth which is currently occuring.
 
Solar storms like we have not seen in decades have been striking the Earth over the past day.  I am expecting increased such activity in coming months and the next few years, in part because we are in the midst of a solar cycle but in part for other reasons.  You may (or may not) recall a post I wrote about a year ago:

rustybasalt.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-fury-of-sun.html

Don't take what I wrote in that post too seriously.  Events that occur in the heavens are things we can do nothing much about.  Whether or not the current activity or even the current sunspots (which may come back around after a couple of weeks and yet again in about a month) are what I have been expecting, it is not possible to say.  The current activity is really not particularly abnormal even though it is unusual.  We are roughly in the middle of a solar cycle, after all.  However, watch for escalation, especially when sunspot 3664 comes back around, assuming it survives (personally, I think it will), and perhaps comes around yet again.  Could there be big storms on the upcoming day of pentecost (shavuot) on the 11th/12th of June?  Note that I go by the Hebrew calendar regarding issues such as feast days.  Western Christianity's dates on such things are plain wrong.
 
There will be signs in the sun, the moon and the stars, but we need not concern ourselves too much with such things except to note and observe them in the context of our current place in the biblical timeline.  Our hope and our trust should be fixed upon Christ and worries about the ephermeral will fade away.