Posts Tagged ‘ABIA’
All Systems Go Capital MetroRail Prepares For Service
Posted in community, railroad, technology, transportation, tagged ABIA, All Systems Go, Austin Texas, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, bus, Capital Metro, Capital Metro Rail, Catellus, Cedar Park, commuter rail, East Austin, Federal Railroad Administration, FRA, light rail, locomotive, MetroRail, MLK Jr, Monterrey Mexico, Mueller Development, railroad, Robert Mueller, Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, streetcar, transit plan, UT, Veolia on July 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Solar Cycle 24 Begins–Again?
Posted in climate change, Solar Cycle 24, solar energy, space, weather, tagged ABIA, Austin, Bergstrom, Burton Fitzsimmons, Canada, CBC, climate change, drought, earth, Little Ice Age, M-class, M-class solar flares, magnetic field, Maunder Minimum, meteorologist, Prince Edward Island, Robert Frost, SOHO, Solar Cycle 24, space weather, spaceweather.com, summer, Summer From Hell, sun, sunspots, Swine Flu, Texas, Waco, x-class flare on July 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
updated January 25th, 2010. After a bang-up start to ss24 in November of 2009, the Sun, again entered a quiescent period, devoid of sunspots–until January 15 or there about, when an M class flare disrupted terrestrial radio reception, creating spectacular auroral light shows in Earth’s polar regions. Last week, the sunspot’s magnetic field erupted five times, producing a string of M-class [...]




