Posted on 04/30/2021 9:43:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Forecasters expect the stream to hit Earth on Sunday, May 2, and it could affect Earth's satellite technology.
It has been categorised as a G1 class storm which can lead to “weak power grid fluctuations” and can have a “minor impact on satellite operations”.
Astronomer Tony Phillips wrote on his Space Weather site: "Minor G1-class geomagnetic storms are possible on May 2nd when a stream of solar wind is expected to hit Earth's magnetic field.
While this solar storm is largely is insignificant...the Sun can also release solar flares so powerful that they can cripple Earth's technology.
"The probability of an event of that size happening is estimated by the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering as one in 10 in any decade."
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
We’ve had several once in a century great floods. They’re getting more and more frequent. Didn’t have them when actual humans were doing the monitoring but the problems came with technology and the humans moved a 100 miles away into cubicles.
The Storm Rider seems sane. BDA seemed like a larp on steriods, to me.
Satellite TV owners tap box
That’s an insult to actual inbred mongoloids.
Also; Laz would hit it.
Nope. We’re doomed! DOOMED I TELL YA!’’.
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