'Direct hit': 'Space Weather Woman' predicts massive solar storm to strike Earth

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11. LOL...But you have to admit that the GPS constellation was somewhat meager back then.

Here's a NOAA site with a 30-minute aurora forecast for North America, etc:

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast

Q: Meager

A: What has the German cognate mager as in ermagern, Alex?

Since you speak German, I thought I would throw in that last bit for fun. Checking on the verb ermagern (to make sure I was not making up a word) led me to few references to it online. Weirdly, one reference is from a book from (possibly) 1710, Der Curiöse Künstler, page 20, Num. XII., paragraph 1, line 2 - "wann er ermagert".

Der in vielen Wissenschaften reichversehene Curiöse Künstler, Oder wohleingerichtetes Haus- Arzney- Kunst- und Wunderbuch: in welchem das Nöthigste und Nützlichste, so im menschlichen Leben und in der Haus- und Landwirthschafts-Kunst vorzukommen pfleget, enthalten ; Mit nöthigen Registern und hierzu dienlichen Kupfern versehen

https://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/title/BV017413478

Were you familiar with that verb by chance? I must have run into it in one of Hesse's works or Goethe's works but don't know any longer. I'm just asking out of (ironically) curiosity.

Additionally and possibly interestingly, the publisher's "foreword" ( "Des Verlegers Bericht an den geneigten Leser" ) even mentions a "Lateinische Sprichwort": vino vendibili non opus.