Posted on 04/24/2021 8:40:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Planet Earth is under a Geomagnetic Storm Watch on Sunday and, luckily, that isn’t as scary as it sounds.
In fact, some people in these situations pack up and hop on a plane – not to flee to safety, but to view the beautiful result: auroras, or the Northern Lights.
Scientists recorded a partial halo CME and determined based on it’s size and intensity, that Earth will experience geomagnetic storm conditions early to mid-day Sunday. They expect G2, or moderate storm levels, and it’s predicted to cause hours of brilliant aurora.
G2 storm conditions can trigger voltage alarms in power systems that are highest above sea level. Similar areas may see damage to transformers during geomagnetic storms that are prolonged in duration.
NASA predicts that we will most likely not see any disruptions as a result of this CME, but they do predict brilliant aurora,
When monitoring solar activity, scientists watch for a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) which is a giant bubble of radiation exploding into space at a fast speed. CMEs sometime happen with a solar flare when the sun’s magnetic fields reorganize.
When the giant bubbles of radiation make it to the Earth’s atmosphere, they can trigger intense light shows in the sky, called auroras. A common name for them is also the Northern Lights.
Conversely, in a worst case scenario, the radiation can cause electricity and power outages.
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Evacuations are imminent.
Read the last paragraph of the article.
Talk about burying the lede.
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I have not seen the aurora in the USA since I was a child in the 60s
no more than saying it may rain on Sunday and lighting can strike and kill you. Probability.
“I have not seen the aurora in the USA since I was a child in the 60s”
Me, either. We lived in upstate NY and I remember seeing it a couple of times. I worked in Alaska several weeks in the mid 70s but had no luck then.
At some point the Lord will deliver a disaster that will put the RAT/commie agenda on the back burner. But they’ll try to take advantage of the chaos anyway.
Hopefully, facebook, twitter and instagram will be down and out for 3-4 days.
The sky is falling!
Is that for tonight or tomorrow night?
Planet Earth is blue, and there’s nothing I can do.
Saw it in Massachusetts (Cape Cod—Otis AFB) in 1982.
NASA predicts that we will most likely not see any disruptions as a result of this CME, but they do predict brilliant aurora, venturing as far south as the northern edge of the U.S.
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“that isn’t as scary as it sounds”
Unless you’re standing at the exact spot where magnetic field lines converge and enter the earth, in which case, you will be disintegrated.
The 1859 Carrington event, named for British astronemer Richarx carrington, caused such a geomagnetic storm that it overloaded telegraph lines causing sparks to fly out and start fires. Railroad tracks became too hot to touch as long metallic objects act as antenna to pick up the energy .
In 1921 was a similar smaller event, In 1989 a geomagnetic storm blacked out Guebec as it overloaded the power lines
Stationed in Alaska in 1958-1960 and I saw it plenty of times.
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