COMET, DELETED 15/3/12

Sungrazing Comet SWAN, which dove into the sun's atmosphere during the late hours of March 14th, apparently did not survive. In the following 10 hour movie, Comet SWAN enters the solar corona but does not exit again

Comet SWAN was a Kreutz sungrazer, a fragment of the same ancient comet that produced sungrazing Comet Lovejoy in Dec. 2011. Comet Lovejoy famously survived its brush with the sun and put on a flamboyant show after it emerged from the solar fire. While Comet SWAN was cut from the same cloth, it was a smaller fragment that has completely evaporated.

The CME emerging from the sun's northwestern limb near the end of the movie was not caused by this tiny comet's impact. It is just another eruption of active sunspot 1429.

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NORTHERN LIGHTS CME IMPACT 15/3/12

As expected, the flank of a CME hit Earth's magetic field today, March 15th, around 1300 UT. A high-latitude geomagnetic storm might be in the offing

SEA AREA FORECAST 15/3/12
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Sea Area Forecast until 1200 Friday 16 March 2012

Issued at 1200 Thursday 15 March 2012
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Gale warning: NIL

Small craft warning: NIL

Meteorological situation at 0900: A fresh south to southwest airflow covers Ireland. A cold front with small waves running along it. just to the northwest of Ireland will slowly traverse the country, clearing the southeast Friday evening. A slack but very unstable trough will follow for St. Patrick's Day.

Forecast for southwestern, western and northern coastal waters from Roches Point to Slyne Head to Malin Head
Wind: Southerly force 4 or 5. Gusting to force 6 this evening between Valentia and Slyne Head. Veering southwesterly tomorrow morning force 5 gusting to force 6.
Weather: Rain at times/patches of fog.
Visibility: Occasionally moderate or poor.

Forecast for northeastern, eastern and southeastern coastal waters from Malin Head to Wicklow Head to Roches Point and the Irish Sea.
Wind: Southerly force 4 or 5. Occasionally force 6 tomorrow in the North Irish Sea.
Weather: Patches of mist/drizzle/fog, Rain spreading from the west later.
Visibility: Locally moderate or poor.

Warning of heavy swell: Nil

Outlook for a further 24 hours until 1200 Saturday 17 March 2012: Fresh southwesterly winds, decreasing light and variable. Rain/drizzle/fog clearing eastwards to fair weather and scattered showers. Heavy, possibly thundery, showers on Saturday.

SATURDAY, ST. PATRICK'S DAY 17/3/12

Cold, but bright on St Patrick's Day with fairly widespread rain and hail showers , some heavy with a risk of thunder and some possibly wintry on higher ground. Maximum afternoon temperatures of 6 to 9 or possibly 10 degrees C. but winds will be fairly light. Cold on Saturday night, with frost and a risk of icy stretches.

FRIDAY 16/3/12

morning will start off wet across the province, but the rain will clear during the morning. The afternoon will be brighter and mainly dry but also fresher as the winds turn westerly. Highest temperatures will be around 7 or 8 degrees.

THURSDAY NIGHT 15/3/12

Cloudy this evening and tonight with outbreaks of rain becoming more persistent and heavy during the night. Lows of 7 or 8 degrees C.

KENNETH FROM THE DONEGAL WEATHER CHANNEL IS THE YOUNGEST WEATHER FORECASTER IN IRELAND AND THE UK AND POSSIBLY EUROPE AND ONE OF THE YOUNGEST IN THE WORLD 14/3/12

Kenneth Mc Donagh from the Donegal Weather Channel is the youngest weather forecaster in Ireland and the UK possibly Europe and the world.

The Donegal man is only nineteen years of age and runs his own highly operated weather page on Facebook and Twitter and working on a website that will be released in the next month or two which would be Donegal's first weather website.
Many of you folks reading this will probably have heard of the Donegal weather channel which has thousands of followers from every corner of world New Zealand, Australia, Europe and America.

The Donegal weather channel also covers the sky’s and anything that happens in them it’s also very popular for its coverage on the northern lights which it has help people and guided them to areas so they can see them for them self’s it seems that wherever there is a Donegal person no matter where in the world there is a hunger for weather from back home.

Check out the Donegal weather channel on Facebook and on twitter at the Donegal weather page it also has a new emailing system which send you a email on anything happing above in the sky’s and aurora alerts on the northern lights.

email Donegalweatherchannel@ymail.com or Donegalweatherchannelauroraalert@ymail.com