Posted on 09/28/2016 5:51:25 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
Solar storm heading towards Earth threatening to break your Sky TV and mobile phones (by Fri 09/30)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/715472/Solar-storm-Earth-break-Sky-TV-mobile-phones
SCIENCE
A HUGE solar storm is heading towards Earth which could leave us without mobile phones, satellite TV and even electricity. By Sean Martin 17:53, Wed, Sept 2016
A solar storm is heading towards Earth
Modern-day Britain could go into meltdown after scientists forecast the solar storm to hit between now and Friday which could wreak havoc with technology.
Solar storms affect Earth’s technology as radiation is thrown at the planet from the Sun.
While humans are protected from the radiation by the atmosphere, the rays can heat the outer atmosphere, causing it to expand which can affect satellites in orbit. That could lead to a lack of GPS navigation, mobile phone signal and satellite TV such as Sky.
Furthermore, higher currents in the magnetosphere – the Earth’s magnetic field – could lead to a surge of electricity in power lines, which can blow out electrical transformers and power stations leading to a temporary loss of electricity in a region – although this usually only occurs in areas that are in high altitude.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says a coronal hole has opened on the Sun, leading to a stream of solar particles hurtling towards Earth.
According to SpaceWeatherLive: “The magnetic field of a coronal hole is different than the rest of the Sun. Instead of returning to the surface, these magnetic field lines stay open and stretch out into space.”
As a result, Earth is expected to be hit by a swarm of particles in the coming days which, on a better note, could cause the Northern Lights to be visible.
Mauro Messerotti, from the University of Trieste the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) warned that the hole “extends for about 30 per cent of the disk of the sun” and that the structure “may persist for more than a month because these holes sometimes last for more than one full rotation of the sun, which lasts 28 days.”
just a bit too late for the ‘debate?’ and too early for O’s next anti-American speech
Homepage | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
Space Weather Conditions
on NOAA Scales
24-Hour Observed Maximums
Predicted 2016-09-29 UTC
moderate
Predicted 2016-09-30 UTC
moderate
Predicted 2016-10-01 UTC
Solar Wind Speed: 689 km/sec Solar Wind Magnetic Fields: Bt 8 nT, Bz -1 nT Noon 10.7cm Radio Flux: 84 sfu
Day Two of G2 (Moderate) Geomagnetic Storm Conditions
published: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 21:20 UTC
A G2 (Moderate) Geomagnetic Storm Alert was issued at 2048 UTC (4:48 pm ET) on 28 September as effects from a large coronal hole high speed stream
G2 (Moderate) Geomagnetic Storm Watch for 28-30 September
published: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 04:35 UTC
A G2 (Moderate) Geomagnetic Storm Watch has been issued for 28-30 September 2016 due to effects from the anticipated arrival of a recurrent coronal
Paging Captain Picard.
Captain Picard, please pick up the white courtesy phone...
Woo-hoo!
Thanks, Obama!
Umm, Jim your point is well taken ‘bout Express UK being over the top.
Note NOAA cited in the post.
Thanks!
Quite a bit of hype in this story, we had a G3 back in May and no one even noticed. Kp did hit 6, now back to 4. Maybe some Aurora in northern latitudes.
Well I hope this solar flare doesn’t interfere with press coverage of Obola’s Friday night over-the-weekend sneakiness.
RE: “just a bit too late for the ‘debate?’ and too early for O’s next anti-American speech”
This will be a fantastic opportunity to see an Aurora Borealis. I saw my first aurora this past spring. It was on my bucket list.
What an incredibly beautiful filtered photo of the sun.
Globull warming!!!
Here in USDA zone 6a I have several shrubs and perennials that were scorched from last week’s intense heat. Guess I should dig out the pitchforks and marshmallows for the next one.
The storm won’t hurt my communications - old style coin telephone, telegraph, semiphore flags and voice device, carrier pigeons and my kids on bikes.
These systems may be “OLD”, but they still work, esp. the kids if you pay them in pizzas.
I have messenger cats as a standby method. The chipmunks won’t work with the cats.
As a last resort, I can hire Garrett Morris to yell loudly (for you SNL folks).
Hugh. and series.
9-30 is my birthday and I do not appreciate this inconvenience! How am I going to get all those happy birthday calls if my phone doesn’t work?
Bah humbug!
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