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A strong geomagnetic storm hit earth early Wednesday morning
WTHI ^ | David Siple

Posted on 05/12/2021 8:50:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Early Wednesday morning the Space Weather Prediction Center put out an active warning for a G3 – Strong Geomagnetic Storm.

(WABASH VALLEY) WTHI – A coronal mass ejection (CME) hit earth at 2:43 AM Eastern Wednesday, May 12. A CME is a large expulsion of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun. The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite discovered a CME racing toward earth at around 961,882 miles per hour.

The Space Weather Prediction Center from NOAA said that this CME hit earth at a G3 or a Strong category. When this occurs, voltage corrections may be needed as well as false alarms to some protection devices may occur.


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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; carringtonevent; geomagneticstorm; maunderminimum; science

1 posted on 05/12/2021 8:50:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

😳


2 posted on 05/12/2021 8:51:53 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: BenLurkin

coronal mass ejection

If it were close to the edge, there may have been total mass retain.


3 posted on 05/12/2021 8:52:26 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: BenLurkin

Trump’s fault!🙀🤗


4 posted on 05/12/2021 9:01:49 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: BenLurkin

Poor and women hardest hit?


5 posted on 05/12/2021 9:05:51 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: BenLurkin

Could that have caused an hour-long electrical outage in Baltimore this morning?


6 posted on 05/12/2021 9:09:43 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Larry Lucido

Seasons will pass you by...


7 posted on 05/12/2021 9:10:17 PM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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To: BenLurkin

Shields to full,mister Scott.

CC


8 posted on 05/12/2021 9:18:21 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: BenLurkin

Why do we always find out after the fact?

How frustrating.


9 posted on 05/12/2021 9:28:26 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.... )
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To: metmom
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10 posted on 05/12/2021 9:37:39 PM PDT by CtBigPat (The period of Crisis is ending. Now comes Normalization.)
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To: BenLurkin

I didn’t feel a thing.


11 posted on 05/12/2021 9:38:09 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: BenLurkin

As long as we still have weed and the internet there’s no reason to panic.


12 posted on 05/12/2021 10:03:02 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: BenLurkin

Will the Pope come out with a new statement to the effect that now the sun has joined in the cries of the earth as it suffers under the cruel torture that is being inflicted upon it by the burning of fossil fuels?


13 posted on 05/12/2021 10:43:33 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Noumenon; Larry Lucido
> Seasons will pass you by...

I get up, I get down, I see what you did there...

14 posted on 05/12/2021 10:51:08 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: BenLurkin
Them what smelt it, dealt it.

15 posted on 05/12/2021 11:08:12 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Working like Crazy to support the Lazy.)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m sorry. That was just one of my superfarts ricocheting off the sun and coming back at us. Too many medicines and not enough pancreas left to digest very well.

Next time I will give Earth a warning. I promise.

Excuse me while I go have my dinner of franks and beans!!


16 posted on 05/13/2021 1:14:48 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: BenLurkin

Not good for us amateur radio operators


17 posted on 05/13/2021 5:55:48 AM PDT by dis.kevin (Dry white toast)
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To: BenLurkin

Well here I sit on Thursday morning on the internet and a working cell phone by my side. 🙄


18 posted on 05/13/2021 6:09:00 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: dayglored; Noumenon

Yeah, well, tell the moon don’t tell the marcher.


19 posted on 05/13/2021 6:41:18 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: faucetman

The earth did. There were two 6.0+ magnitude earthquakes within 6 hours of the CME impact.


20 posted on 05/13/2021 7:42:28 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Get off your ass and earn it!)
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