Posted on 08/08/2010 12:30:07 AM PDT by Cementjungle
The eruption hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space, just missing a direct sun-Earth line. Forecasters expect the cloud to deliver no more than a glancing blow to our planet's magnetic field when it billows by on August 9th or 10th--not be a major space weather event.
Future eruptions could turn out differently. Active region 1093 is rotating toward Earth. By the end of this weekend, we'll be in the line of fire if its magnetic fields become unstable again. Space Weather Phone subscribers will be the first to know.
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I can always tell when the sun is busy. The two FM talk radio stations around here turn into static magnets.
I guess the sun’s 12-year nap is over.
Hmmm. I thought it was a 10 year nap - maybe it is sleeping longer these days. Oh well, time for some active solar activity and even more warming. I expect the global warming specialists will have their day this cycle.
I thought it got cooler when the sun's more active
People of the Earth attention. People of the Earth attention. Look to your Sun for a warning...
Heh... well, I thought it got warmer with the sun’s activity which would be more obvious.
Oh well, the global warming specialists will find a way to make either their own...
Not close to warming yet. Just barely on the lower threshold of neutral. It was actually more active back in early February. What is currently happening is that the AGW promoters are hyping any activity at all. Which can kinda give you a little clue as to their disposition. Back in early February we were neutral for 5 days. Right now just barely neutral for three days. The sun has been having problems sustaining even neutral activity for more then a week. No warming for 6 1/2 years now. Still primarily cooling with short periods of neutral. That is why millions of freshwater fish just died in South America and millions of salt water and fresh water fish died in Florida last winter. Cold water.
Come and get us!
Ping
Heh.. Agree, yes, nothing here yet...just fodder for those silly folks that keep claiming otherwise. Was just a bit of a jest there...
I do believe the the sun has a much stronger influence on Earth’s temperature than the skeptics though. As most things we will have to wait a millennium or so to be sure...
Now according to my neutral range, we did have one day in the last 6 1/2 years where average net solar input was just slightly in the warming range. May 5th 2010. Had 77 sunspots that day. Then again, this is the NOAA and there are some critics that claim there are padding their numbers up just a little.
It all depends on the sun. If the monthly sunspot average for cycle 24 does not go significantly above 50, we are gonna be hurting. Every winter will be colder until possibly the next active period. If last winter did not wake em up, we shall see what happens this winter.
Yes, I was being a bit flip! My major point was the the sun’s cycle probably controls more of our climate than those idiot Climate Change specialists know or even care (actually, they seem to care about the money mostly). As to the rest...it’s just happening as it will...
Radio is tuned to WWV for results.
Did it? I don’t know. My wi-fi has been off lately since the 4th.
The 'Skymap' for tonight just after sunset...
If I didn't live in a%$#^& Light polluted subdivision now (dam committee)(1), I'd get out the telescope. Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn are all in view. How cool is that.
(1) The idiots decided we 'needed' new street lights that looked 'charming & old fashioned'. Now it's BRIGHTER than Michigan Avenue (The Mag Mile in Chi) on Christmas Eve!
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