Posted on 10/28/2021 1:44:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Solar particles blasted out in association with the flare could hit Earth tomorrow (Oct. 29).
A major solar flare erupted from the sun on Thursday (Oct. 28) in the strongest storm yet of our star's current weather cycle.
The sun fired off an X1-class solar flare, its most powerful kind of flare, at 11:17 a.m. EDT (1517 GMT), according to an alert from the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Group, which tracks space weather events.
The group warned that the eruption could spawn a wide-area radio communications blackout for high-frequency signals for about an hour. "Area of impact consists of large portions of the sunlit side of Earth, strongest at the sub-solar point," it wrote in an email alert.
Thursday's flare appeared to originate from a sunspot called AR2887 currently positioned in the center of the sun and facing the Earth, based on its location. The sunspot was responsible for two moderate M-class solar flares earlier in the day, according to SpaceWeather.com, which also tracks daily sun weather.
The coronal mass ejection from a Tuesday flare up of AR2887 could deliver a "glancing blow" to Earth sometime on Friday (Oct. 30), SpaceWeather.com reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
My privilege, but “guest7” beat me to it earlier...
Trust the Ham operators to be on top of everything that affects radio... :)
I say bring on a Carrington Event. The developed world needs a little humility.
If you liked that movie, you’d like “Childhood’s End” by Arthur C. Clarke. I’m sure that to some degree “Knowing” was inspired by it.
This guy I know wonders if he needs to build a Faraday cage around his house? Would chicken wire work? What size mesh would he need?
Or would home insurance cover replacement of a fried multi-media system? He would like to upgrade his stuff.
Oh yeah, he says he’s an atheist so that ‘act of God’ clause shouldn’t count.
Openurmind wrote:
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Probably mess up some AM radio TX/DX...
I clicked and got a “404 Not Found” just now .
Nevermind, it’s up now.
my climate models show this is because of coal and gas!
/s
Should I bring in my tomato plants?
Sorry about that...
Must be be flare... :)
I had trouble finding the right link again myself. For some reason even Duck Duck Go is hiding their site. I wonder if a 3rd party is trying to hide that information for some reason...
It’s working now.
“I say bring on a Carrington Event. The developed world needs a little humility.”
lol, I’m in... Been in that “intervention” mood myself lately. Maybe I can get some important projects done...
Get the cats and dogs inside; you can always plant more tomatoes in the GHs later.
Great! :)
“sometime” on Friday Oct.30 (this makes a huge difference. Is it going to hit Asia, Africa/Europe, or North America??? The time on Oct.30th and the earths rotation are fairly important factors here)
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I know, if they’d just give us an approximate time, I could arrange my lunch hour around it.
Pretty cool book about a catastrophic Solar Flare event...
Survival tricks too.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007ODDGUC/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
... aaaaand the astronauts/cosmonauts are diving for the shelter in the International Space Station. Other than that... it’s only happened tens of million times in the history of the solar system.
Prime Aurora Borealis weather.
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