Solar news
Under the title “Earth braces for biggest space storm in five years” ABC Australia’s online news reports on the last 24 hours of solar activity.
A NOAA space scientist is quoted “Space weather has gotten very interesting over the past 24 hours”.
Further detail as usual from http://www.spaceweather.com and http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/today.html.
UPDATE: 24 hours later – “Space storm fizzle“!