Richland gauge

[cnabors]

Did Richland just get hammered with rain or is the gauge messed up? It shot up from 3.4 something to 9ft.

[cnabors]

Nevermind...I guess the gauge went crazy for a sec.

[Roger]

Maybe a side creek unloading?

[Cowper]

The data has already been corrected, so if you didn't look very shortly after this was posted, you didn't see what was causing the excitement. Like cnabors said, it suddenly went from about 3.4 feet all the way up to 9+ feet. But it was a "straight line" spike upward, much faster than even a flash-flooding river.

Want my guess? (too bad, you're going to get it anyway... )

Remember, the data transmits via low-power signal to and from satellites. From the news:

Earth braced itself for the worst this evening as the largest solar flare in five years sent charged particles speeding towards us at 600 miles per second. As the 'X-class' flare - the most powerful of its kind - bombarded our planet's magnetic field for most of the day, it was feared the activity could disrupt power grids, satellite navigation and aeroplane routes. However, no major incidents have so far been reported - but that could still change. The solar storm - ten times stronger than a normal 'solar wind' - is likely to last through Friday morning, and the region that erupted could still send more blasts our way. At the height of the flare activity Joe Kunches, a scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said: 'It's hitting us right in the nose' - calling it the sun's version of 'Super Tuesday'. But he later said his space weather prediction agency might have overestimated the effects of the bombardment


So there you have it - our little ACC message board is once again at the forefront of scientific inquiry and investigation; among the first to observe and report on the real-life impacts of this solar event.

[okieboater]

more info

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