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Got up at 4:30 as you do! but to cloudy to see anything here this morning Oh well.

Comet is definitely in "outburst"! It should be naked eye visible NOW! The star below has V-mag = 6.3 and the comet's V-mag = 5.1! Taken from http://www.brucegary.net/ISON/ might be worth checking here from time to time for latest updates..

Comet ISON now appears to have 3 distinct tails as it continues to brighten. http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=89573

Its ionized gas BS, http://spaceweather.com/ One tail is the ion tail. It is a thin streamer of ionized gas pushed away from the comet by solar wind. The filamentary ion tail points almost directly away from the sun. The other tail is the dust tail. Like Hansel and Gretel leaving bread crumbs to mark their way through the forest, ISON is leaving a trail of comet dust as it moves through the solar system. Compared to the lightweight molecules in the ion tail, grains of comet dust are heavier and harder for solar wind to push around. The dust tends to stay where it is dropped. The dust tail, therefore, traces the comet's orbit and does not point directly away from the sun as the ion tail does.

Been following Ison for awhile now and now it it has two tails, just hope its going to be more than visible to the eye and wash the sky with jaw dropping wowness. Fingers crossed. http://spaceweather.com/images2013/11nov13/double_strip.jpg

http://www.solarham.net/ The new CME prediction model released by the Goddard Space Flight Center is calling for a direct Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) impact by late November 12th. The plasma cloud was flung into space and towards Earth by the X1 solar flare last night. Geomagnetic storming will be possible once the plasma cloud arrives. More updates in the days ahead. Visit the link below to watch the latest prediction model.

iCyclone just posted this on FB.. First off, Tacloban City is devastated. The city is a horrid landscape of smashed buildings and completely defoliated trees, with widespread looting and unclaimed bodies decaying in the open air. The typhoon moved fast and didn't last long-- only a few hours-- but it struck the city with absolutely terrifying ferocity. At the height of the storm, as the wind rose to a scream, as windows exploded and as our solid-concrete downtown hotel trembled from the impact of flying debris, as pictures blew off the walls and as children became hysterical, a tremendous storm surge swept the entire downtown. Waterfront blocks were reduced to heaps of rubble. In our hotel, trapped first-floor guests smashed the windows of their rooms to keep from drowning and screamed for help, and we had to drop our cameras and pull them out on mattresses and physically carry the elderly and disabled to the second floor. Mark's leg was ripped open by a piece of debris and he'll require surgery. The city has no communication with the outside world. The hospitals are overflowing with the critically injured. The surrounding communities are mowed down. After a bleak night in a hot, pitch-black, trashed hotel, James, Mark, and I managed to get out of the city on a military chopper and get to Cebu via a C-130-- sitting next to corpses in body bags. Meteorologically, Super Typhoon HAIYAN was fascinating; from a human-interest standpoint, it was utterly ghastly. It's been difficult to process.

Yep, just seen that link after reading the link Knocker posted also two twitter feeds to follow also.

Is it! that more ruble is on the surface than ice at the moment !

Question! why is ISON EVM dropping in value, currently at 7.90 or am i reading the values wrong and its a good thing!

Weather! you cant make it up if we tried..

Sorry not had time to read or catch up with current watches but just had a quick look at the radar and seen this...looks electrical in nature Will this have the legs to reach the East Coast! if so when... Cheers. Back to Megastormendoftheworld if not.

Id say no Coast as its been posted here April 18 2012 and also it looks like the guy that made them likes to use the liquify tool in Photoshop, i could be wrong!

This is taken from Daniel Loretto's portfolio.. http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-90033073/stock-photo-tornado-and-lightening.html And theres more beauties

Going to head to the Humber Bridge to see if i can snag a shot or two....

Had my share this year of storms (need more) so i really can't complain-ish but i do like to see what people video or photograph so if you do get lucky in the next couple of days please post.....and i'll do the same as we all love a good visual of some kind whatever the quality..

Is this it? or is there some hope way out in noddy land to grace us with a crack or two..... OR are we now looking for Thundersnow now to give us a flash or two BABOOOMMM... Electric blue flash with big flakes and the thud that rattles the windows on quiet nights when all is quiet on the roads when you can set up a tripod in the middle of the road...as you do Restless and sick of taking pics of stuff of stuff.

I've seen plenty of moths amongst the butterflies - bumblebees on my buddleias this last week, always thought they were nocturnal feeders? nice to see them all the same.

Here it is.. http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/galway-restaurant-owner-admits-tornado-pic-is-fake-29467677.html

Wow i'm loving those cloudsabove .... And a bonus lightning shot too

Did this program get shelved/launched Paul or just put on hold! If still in the pipeline i would be interested in providing quality pictures from the East Coast area. Del.

One more from yesterday..

No problem snOwman, i used a Nikon D7000 with a Tokina 11mm-16mm lens and a lightning trigger all plonked on a sturdy tripod.

Morning all. Here's two pictures that i took yesterday after driving to the East Coast near Hornsea - Easington. I was hoping the storms would carry on till night time but fizzled out around 4pm ish.

Sure i've just seen lightning to my East, anyone else seeing it? Yep its lightning just seen it again must be the cell in the North sea.