Welcome to the New Universal Day, 00:08 UTC. Also “Z.” Or “Zulu” time. I don’t know if the military still calls it Zulu though. But, if you get the NOAA bulletin updates, they are in “Z” time. Which is exactly the same as UTC.
There is a small substorm brewing, but it will probably not clock more than bz -2 or -3 nT, and it’s pretty cloudy around the state with #hurricaneerin. See, I’m hash tagging like a pro.
The bulletins have been interesting lately, and I’ve been spending a fair amount of time on the Mesos, which are these interactive data plots showing what is going on with the various GOES satellite sectors. GOES not only brings us pictures of the sun, so that we can see where the coronal holes might be, but GOES also functions as a weather alert system. As you can imagine, with #erin, things have been rather busy.
This is what a bulletin looks like. There’s a link at the bottom that takes you to the v-lab where the interactive data is, and I think that maybe one of our first podcasts is going to be walking through a screen cast of what that’s all about. It would be super awesome if we could get a NOAA scientist on with us. I’m working up the courage. You’d think that with 65,000 people at my back, I’d have enough courage to ask someone to be on my show, but, it’s taking me a minute.
Here’s the link to the Mesos, if you want to mess around in there and try to figure out what’s going on before our Summit. https://vlab.noaa.gov/web/towr-s/mmm/meso-view