If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Aurora Watch

Discodog · 2016-08-23 18:00:00

I posted this in weather but it's also Astronomy & you can share the amusement. The following email just arrived: Dear AuroraWatch UK subscriber, We apologise for the earlier false alert (issued 13:25 UTC today) which was caused by a lawnmower creating a local disturbance at our Lancaster site. For more information please…

Options

23-08-2016 7:00pm

#1

Discodog

Registered Users Posts: 15,899 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2008

Posts: 15246

I posted this in weather but it's also Astronomy & you can share the amusement. The following email just arrived:

Dear AuroraWatch UK subscriber,

We apologise for the earlier false alert (issued 13:25 UTC today) which was caused by a lawnmower creating a local disturbance at our Lancaster site. For more information please see
http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/aurorawatchuk/2016/08/23/red-alert-cancelled/

The AuroraWatch UK team

3

Comments

Options
#2 23-08-2016 10:44pm
jfSDAS

Registered Users Posts: 352 ✭✭

Join Date: January 2012

Posts: 297

Got that alert too! I double-checked their initial mail against spaceweather.com but saw they had mentioned the Sun was quiet. Aurorawatch UK were very useful for tip-offs about the major auroral storms in October and November 2003.

0