Strong Geomagnetic Storm Expected to Hit, Friday

Yahoo News ^ | 10/23/03

[m1-lightning]

Science - AP

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BOULDER, Colo. - A strong geomagnetic storm was expected to hit Earth on Friday with the potential to affect electrical grids and satellite communications.

One of the largest sunspot clusters in years developed over the past three days and produced a coronal mass ejection, similar to a solar flare, at 3 a.m. EDT Wednesday, forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.

The disturbance was expected to produce a geomagnetic storm rated G3. A G5 storm is the strongest.

The storm could make the aurora visible as far south as Oregon and Illinois.

A coronal mass ejection is an explosion of gas and charged particles into space from the corona, the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere.

A second sunspot cluster not yet visible from Earth could produce more geomagnetic storms in the next two weeks, NOAA said.

[m1-lightning]

My bad. I just realized this was posted this early morning.

Geo Magnetic Storm

[blastdad51]

Somebody call Art Bell, he'll know what to do!!!

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[billorites]

If I go anywhere near iron when these things happen my pacemaker goes nuts.

I have to go pee outside.

I can't get near a toilet or I go into arrhythmia.

[m1-lightning]

That sucks

[Sam Cree]

Wonder how it affects the weather, if at all, it that is known, that is.

[ASOC]

Don't know about the weather, but 20 meters will be shot all to heck...... just before the CQWW SSB contest.

[Bogey78O]

Clearly this was brought about because of industrialization.

/sarcasm

[AngryJawa]

Great news! I'll finally get to tap in to my aluminum foil cache left over from Y2K!

Hmmmm...does the shiny side face in or out?

[FourPeas]

Interesting.

[Dog Gone]

Too bad that Billy Carter never offered that excuse.

[_Jim]

I can't get near a toilet or I go into arrhythmia.

What do you do during lightning storms?

[Cobra64]

Yup. This happens every 11 years; or so I understand. Got any extra tin foil?

[cavtrooper21]

Might want TAKE OFF the foil hat...
Too many of those high range radio waves and it could get a little warm in there.

Unless it's going to be cold where you are. ;^)

[eabinga]

Wow!

[Graybeard58]

"Clearly this was brought about because of industrialization".

...Bush is behind this and it mostly affects women, minorities and children.

[RonDog]

Here are the two threads about this:

Strong Geomagnetic Storm Expected to Hit, Friday
			Posted by m1-lightning On 10/23/2003 7:05 PM PDT with 16 comments Yahoo News ^ | 10/23/03
Strong geomagnetic storm expected to hit Earth
			Posted by Oldeconomybuyer On 10/23/2003 2:04 AM PDT with 77 comments Associated Press ^ | 10-23-03

[Joe Hadenuf]

Bump....

[squidly]

Reminds me of my Navy days when I used to explain away satellite communications problems to my superiors as being due to sun spots and solar flares.