0 Aurora may appear November 12th or 13th

• General
• by Stuart Gunn
• 12-11-2025

    Heads Up from Nathaniel Fittock    Just a heads up, We could be in for some Aurora activity tonight and tomorrow. NOAA has predicted this to be a sizable solar storm. It has the "potential" to be as big as the October Aurora last year.   The Queenstown Cam is a good camera to get a visual on active Aurora  https://queenstown.roundshot.com/   And this app is extremely good at showing New Zealand space weather and current auroral conditions (in my opinion the best because it's made for New Zealand conditions and has a 3D visualization of incoming CMEs) https://spottheaurora.co.nz   And the NOAA Facebook page for the latest information on incoming solar events  https://www.facebook.com/share/14M9EJ775NT/   And Huxt for the long range forecast https://research.reading.ac.uk/met-spate/huxt-forecast/   A major geomagnetic storm is now underway across the planet. This has the potential to become a top shelf extreme G5 storm for earth in the next 24 hours after last night's goliath CME is to follow this initial impact. A satellite & electrical grid predator has arrived. (Hauraki Gulf Weather)   Just to notes: NOAA and Huxt use UTC time, so add 12 hours for NZ time.  

0 The Perils Of Email

• General
• by Stuart Gunn
• 10-07-2019

Increasingly, email is becoming tricky to use. Spam filters, blockers, lag time, servers down etc. etc. let alone the average 60mins plus it takes for someone to open their email. It doesn't bode well if there is an emergency. We found this excellent video which explains The Email Cycle . Down the track. we envisage dropping the email only service as it's just getting so tricky to use. Civil Defence regions have dropped it, but we have thousands and thousands of people to consider and so perseveared for the last two years.  The replacement will be so much better.