Two things to remember here...
1) The way satellite data is collected... its not always complete...
Example from the other crazy thread
2) Sunspot activity... messes with the ionosphere more than HAARP does. As it happens we have had a sunspot alert the last few days...
GEOMAGNETIC STORM: This weekend when magnetometer needles began to swing at the Polar Light Center in Lofoten, Norway, researcher Rob Stammes knew something was up. "A geomagnetic storm was underway."
The storm began on Oct. 11th when a solar wind stream hit Earth's magnetic field. Stammes' magnetometer recorded the impact and subsequent reverberations, which lasted for hours. In the chart recording, above, red shows how the local magnetic field was swinging back and forth while blue denotes electrical currents surging through the ground in response. Outside, Northern Lights were pulsating in sych with the chart recorder's colored pens. "The ground current fluctuated with a 5-to-10 second period; the visible auroras were switching on and off in the same way," he says. "It was a really special sight." Browse the gallery for more:
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?...h=10&year=2008