You’d think it would be hotter
There was a big rumble this month over an expected disruption of MTV thanks to a sunspot that went by the name of 930, but I noticed not a jot of difference. In fact it’s been absurdly cold in Bangkok these last few days, somewhere around 28 Celsius with the wind-chill factor.
Wind chill? Tracking down what became of Sunspot 930, I stumbled into SpaceWeather.com (motto: “Where would you be without us?”), where, after a moment’s embarrassed silence, they informed me that the solar wind speed was currently 630.6 kilometres per second, and that Earth is currently inside a solar wind stream flowing from one particular hole in the sun’s corona.
So no wonder it’s cold. See the rest.
