Holes in the sun threatening to throw birds and GPS off course

themalaymailonline.com ^ | April 1, 2016

[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.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Algore’s fault.

[Drew68]

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.

[PIF]

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

[Lazamataz]

I am so screwed.

[WKUHilltopper]

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

[bunkerhill7]

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.

[Larry Lucido]

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

[SpaceBar]

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

Tax dollars.

[Kegger]

[Roos_Girl]

Ping

[sagar]

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

Gubmint “scientists”.

[SkyDancer]

Global Warming/Climate Change on the sun?

[MarMema]

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

[wouldilie]

We’re all gonna die....

[loungitude]

Magnetic lines Viewed through X-ray telescopes,

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

[StormEye]

How soon before man-made Global Warning damages the Sun?
How many billions of dollars will it take to correct this?
Oh, the Humanity!

[Calvin Locke]

No need to pat[c]h, just a little degaussing should do the trick.

IOW, you need a big magnet.

[metmom]

ping

[Kegger]

IOW, you need a big magnet.

Will this do?