Good evening and welcome to the official MABW forecast for November 25, 00:00 UTC.
A moderate level substorm is in progress, but the timing with our life here on earth isn’t really working out so great. We may see moderate to mild level substorming through the next few hours, but, excepting northern Maine, much of Maine is dealing with clouds or partial clouds. There is some color, not a lot, on the Katahdin webcam, and it appears to be clear up north.
The bulk of the storm looks like it will hit tomorrow during the day, much the same as it did today. Though, major caveat, and the one piece of information I can never convey adequately- space is so massive that it is measureless while being measured. Perhaps the best way to think of this is to imagine what your life would be like if you were a Galapagos tortoise. You would see time in a completely different continuum. Time does exist in space, but not in a way that is easy for those of us living here on earth to feel, touch, taste, or see. The concept of billions of tonnes of plasma moving at speeds upwards of many miles per second isn’t something that is easy to put our arms around. When I am trying to do some math and some forecasting, sometimes I think about it as folding. It’s as if the clouds of plasma are folding in on themselves and whisking away and back, like the Tesseract in a Wrinkle in Time. The best we can do is tell you: yes, it is entirely possible for billions of tonnes of plasma to get here early, or late. But for now, NOAA seems convinced it will happen during the day, tomorrow. I’m not AS entirely convinced, but, we will just have to ride it out and see who gets the scoop.
I’ll keep you posted.