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Posted on 11/08/2011 11:27:48 AM PST by blam
NOAA Warns of Monster Solar Storm Region Facing Earth for Next Two Weeks; Fully Capable of Producing X-Class Flares
Mac Slavo
November 8th, 2011
SHTFplan.com
Last Thursday the sun produced an X1.9 rated solar flare that narrowly missed Earth. Although it wasn’t aimed directly at us, about 45 minutes after leaving the sun it was still powerful enough to disrupt radio communications.
Now, that same area responsible for producing the X-class flare may pose a direct threat to Earth.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center says that the region on the sun known as AR11339 and affectionately called the “Benevolent Monster” will set its sights on Earth. It will move into a position that poses the largest risk to our planet around November 9th, 2011 and remain on a direct line of sight with earth for the following two (2) weeks as it rotates:
Scientists at the federal Space Weather Prediction Center say that area is the most active part of the sun since 2005. It has dozens of sunspots, including one that is the size of 17 Earths.
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“It’s still growing. The size is what blows me away.”
Thursday’s flare wasn’t aimed at Earth. However, this active region is now slowly turning toward Earth, and scientists say it will be directly facing Earth in about five days.
That storm region will only affect Earth if it shoots off flares and they hit our planet, which doesn’t always happen with stormy areas, said prediction center space scientist Joe Kunches.
The region will be facing Earth for about two weeks as it rotates, he said.
Solar flares send out bursts of electromagnetic energy that can occasionally disrupt communications and electrical systems.
Sourced Via The Intel Hub
We’ll be facing the monster starting sometime this evening into tomorrow. Considering that it has just recently ejected an X-class flare towards Earth and another towards Venus, we should consider the region to be active and fully capable of affecting our planet.
While NOAA’s warnings fall short of any imminent ‘end of the world as we know it’ event, the risk over the next two weeks of a Carrington-like event are higher now than at anytime in the last decade. The 1859 Carrington Event, caused by a solar flare, reportedly knocked out telegraph operations around the world. It is believed that such an event, were it to occur today, could potentially take down the U.S. power grid for months or years and paralyze the entire globe:
Physicist Michio Kaku:
It could paralyze the economy of the planet earth. In 1859 we had a gigantic solar storm which knocked out telegraph wires back then, 150 years ago. If that had happened today it would knock out almost all our satellites, knock out power stations, there would be food riots around the country because refrigeration would stop, airplanes would probably crash without radar.
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And again, this is a once in a century, once in two centuries storm…
We do have them and we have to worry about them.
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We’d be thrown back 100 years.
Source: Top Physicist Says Solar Flare Would Set Us Back 100 Years
Patrick Geryl of How to Survive 2012 contacted us recently and contributed a short video describing the potential fall out of such an event. The consequences would be devastating and would include everything from power grid failure and food shortages, to savage riots and, eventually, a meltdown of nuclear reactors across the globe.
(Go to the site to view the video
There would be very little warning, if any, with estimates suggesting that once a solar event is detected it could take anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of days to impact earth.
The Faraday Cages would be a great name for a retro dance club. Go-go boots, fishnets...
Oh, sorry, what was this topic about?
Thanks blam.
"It's always something."
Check out article.
(I'm writing this from under the bed).
A big ‘Black Swan’ flying from the Sun?
bttt
Oh great, one more thing to worry about. Sometimes I feel like getting rid of internet and tv. Life would be much less stressful.
Well looks like South Florida would be in a world of hurt. Time to move to NE Georgia or inland South Carolina, Has to be somewhere South of the Mason Dixon line. I don’t do Yankee.
LOL!! Under your bed isn’t going to help. I hate reading this stuff, as if we don’t already have enough to worry about.
No more moving for me I am hoping for a warning too high tail it from a tidal wave the quake IMO there is no real safety unless you move to the Ozark mountains where some man built a mansion fortress already.
My “panic over the latest scary story” is worn to a frazzle and not functioning anymore. The left has beaten scary stories like a rented mule, and they no longer attract my attention nor cause distress.
It is my fault I took us all so off subject I don’t know anymore if we are talking about the new madrid quake,tidal wave,near miss asteroid whizzing by now,or solar storms that may or may not knock out power grids,mobiles in the next THEY DON’T KNOW two weeks?
We need ONE crappola hits the fan thread to discuss it all?
AND this is all aside from what Obama is doing...
Someone post a funny picture or soething sheeeesh!
Yeah remember the H1NI,Swine flu,Y2K,bird flu Janet Napolitano 3 hair colors, mixed ice cream, lesbian, skunk; hair lady searching peoples depend diapers and honing in on american’s as terrorists and letting the real terrorists get miranda rights and skate with Obama as they’re pro bono attorney?And now the EBS crap on cell phones so Obama can get all our cell digits too tell us his propaganda go vote for his hopey changey tyranny crap!
I really feel the left and Obama will create something to suspend elections and they will call for NWO with Europe for the zillionth time and somehow usher it in.
Speaking of that, the mule rental biz isn’t what it used to be.
It’s a fake, so, no, not legit. Regardless of that, quakes can’t be predicted for date or intensity, so, no.
Also, the big inland sea where the Rockies are might be difficult to explain. Edgar Cayce’s prediction is that Nebraska will be on the seacoast, and by now, that’s not many years away. :’) Then again, his forty year period was a dud, unless one counts it a bit differently — it may have started in 1990 (due to some quirks in the way his “trance” self reckoned time), which means there’s still 19 years to go.
She’s Gonna Blow: Canary Island Evacuated Amid Volcano Fears
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2786380/posts?page=46#46
(link there to something about 1958’s Lituya Bay tsunami)
http://geology.com/records/biggest-tsunami.shtml
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1648290/posts?page=18#18
Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/636611/posts?page=7#7
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/636611/posts?page=9#9
Canary Islands and Hawaiian crack:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1648290/posts?page=22#22
http://www.drgeorgepc.com/TsunamiMegaEvaluation.html
Thanks for the links!I could crawl under my bed.
Speaking of which, don't solar storms cause global warming?
Real Genius... one of my favorite 80’s movies. Have actually watched it twice in the last few weeks after years of not seeing it.
But I would know that scene even if I hadn’t seen it recently. I think of it every time I hear that song and since it is on my MP3 player that is often.
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