[The Comedian]

Groundhog Day this year will bring us both a 100 million-person-affecting storm, and a solar storm.

Wear a parka and sunscreen as you freeze inside your Faraday cage.

[The Comedian]

Just-waiting-for-a-Feb.-2-earthquake-for-a-trifecta ping.

"Space Energy/Solar Weirdness" ping.

Ping list dealing with odd space phenomena and solar events.

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The Comedian's "Space Energy/Solar Weirdness" ping list...

Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Dang! Look at those hemorrhoids!! Er, solarrhoids.

[mountn man]

Time to break out the telescope

and the welding hood.

[Keith in Iowa]

Another Earth changing event happens Feb 3, 0300 Eastern: Pre-orders for the Verizon iPhone begin. :)

[dragnet2]

Bookmark

[dfwgator]

"Watch your coronal hole, bud."

[headstamp 2]

We are all going to die!

Now back to our regularly scheduled program.

[mnehring]

So basically Corholio broke wind?

[BipolarBob]

Let’s all drink a Corona to the Coronal Hole.

[familyop]

"Wear a parka and sunscreen as you freeze inside your Faraday cage."

If the magnetic storms are intense enough, that'll be about right. ;-)

[usconservative]

The stream of solar wind pouring from it will swing around and hit our planet in early February, possibly sparking polar magnetic storms. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras between Feb. 2nd and 4th.

CQ, CQ .....

[Salamander]

“Oh, bloody hell...” ping

[dragnet2]

This still from SDO caught the action in freeze-frame splendor when the Sun popped off two events at once (Jan. 28, 2011). A filament on the left side became unstable and erupted, while an M-1 flare and a coronal mass ejection on the right blasted into space.

[beethovenfan]

Sun farts.

[Travis McGee]

I’m sure it’s caused by human activity.

[earglasses]

“Hole into sun’s interior shows darkness. What happened to the light shed by all of the fusion in there?” The guys at http://thunderbolts.info/home.htm love this stuff. Like the mystery of how the surface of the sun can be a million degrees cooler than the solar atmosphere, it provides the kind of puzzle that drives establishmentarians nuts.

[Dogbert41]

Anyone see KNOWING lately? With Nicholas Cage?

[SubMareener]

You can really see it at 194 Angstrom (Green). The image corresponds to about 1.5 million Kelvin.

[anymouse]

Either it's full of stars

Or on the other had, just 3 stars.

Either way, it's a bad sign.

[Tucker39]

According to the NASA info, solar winds from this solar hole should hit Earth on Tuesday. Could that possibly bring us a little WARMTH? We could use some here in Pennsyltucky!