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Holes in the sun threatening to throw birds and GPS off course
themalaymailonline.com ^ | April 1, 2016

Posted on 04/02/2016 8:16:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Three coronal holes spread across the sun are pointing at Earth. As a result, the US Space Weather Prediction Centre in Boulder, Colorado, and the Space Weather Operations Centre of the UK Met Office in Exeter have issued an alert for tomorrow of a minor geomagnetic storm.

“Early on Day 3 (April 2), a high-speed stream from coronal hole 67 is expected to reach Earth,” said the Met Office. Forecasters in the US and UK predict this could confuse migrating birds and other animals, cause minor problems with satellites and make an aurora visible as far south as Maine and Michigan.

The storms could rise to G2 level on a five-step scale, which would mean the Northern Lights might be seen in New York, and some electrical transformers could be damaged.

Magnetic lines Viewed through X-ray telescopes, coronal holes can appear to be vast, dark, blank spaces in the swirling atmosphere of the sun. They are the places where the sun’s magnetic lines don’t return to the surface.

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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: aurora; catastrophism; cme; coronalmassejection; doomed; freepun
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1 posted on 04/02/2016 8:16:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Algore’s fault.


2 posted on 04/02/2016 8:18:04 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a dump, sewer or "refugee" camp. It's my home.)
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To: BenLurkin
Forecasters in the US and UK predict this could confuse migrating birds and other animals, cause minor problems with satellites and make an aurora visible as far south as Maine and Michigan.

I suspect the birds will make it through just fine. My wife, on the other hand, can't pull out of the garage without GPS working.

3 posted on 04/02/2016 8:20:43 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: BenLurkin

photinobirds are infesting the sun ... get used to it.


4 posted on 04/02/2016 8:24:50 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: BenLurkin

I am so screwed.


5 posted on 04/02/2016 8:25:50 AM PDT by Lazamataz (This is Satan's time, filled with madness, bloodlust, and despair.)
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To: BenLurkin

And yet holes in the head came up with this theory.


6 posted on 04/02/2016 8:39:02 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: BenLurkin

Forecasters in the US and UK predict these holes in the sun could confuse migrating birds and other animals, cause minor problems with satellites, make an aurora visible as far south as Maine and Michigan and cause women near the North Pole {Russia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Greenland and numerous Eskimo female populations in northern Canada} to go into heat.


7 posted on 04/02/2016 8:40:02 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 ((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))))
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To: BenLurkin

What kind of material would you need to patch those holes?


8 posted on 04/02/2016 8:44:45 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido
What kind of material would you need to patch those holes?

Tax dollars.
9 posted on 04/02/2016 8:47:55 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Larry Lucido

10 posted on 04/02/2016 8:48:14 AM PDT by Kegger
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To: TMSuchman

Ping


11 posted on 04/02/2016 8:49:57 AM PDT by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: WKUHilltopper

“And yet holes in the head came up with this theory.”

Gubmint “scientists”.


12 posted on 04/02/2016 8:54:25 AM PDT by sagar (3 way race; cranky populist - Trump/Sanders, establishment - Hillary/Roobio, conservative - Cruz!)
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To: BenLurkin

Global Warming/Climate Change on the sun?


13 posted on 04/02/2016 8:57:23 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: BenLurkin

Great news! We see pretty good northern lights from our bedroom window fairly often. Will stay up tonight here in Michigan for the view.


14 posted on 04/02/2016 9:08:19 AM PDT by MarMema (2016 - Trump or Goldman Sachs)
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To: BenLurkin

We’re all gonna die....


15 posted on 04/02/2016 9:09:16 AM PDT by wouldilie
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To: BenLurkin

Magnetic lines Viewed through X-ray telescopes,

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

I lent my X-ray telescope to the guy next door. Dammit he’s got my rake, too.


16 posted on 04/02/2016 9:19:47 AM PDT by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: BenLurkin
How soon before man-made Global Warning damages the Sun?
How many billions of dollars will it take to correct this?
Oh, the Humanity!

17 posted on 04/02/2016 9:26:45 AM PDT by StormEye
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To: Larry Lucido; Kegger
No need to pat[c]h, just a little degaussing should do the trick.

IOW, you need a big magnet.

18 posted on 04/02/2016 9:46:19 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: BenLurkin; AFPhys

ping


19 posted on 04/02/2016 10:22:43 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Calvin Locke
IOW, you need a big magnet.

Will this do?


20 posted on 04/02/2016 10:33:02 AM PDT by Kegger
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