Posted on 07/08/2022 11:51:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The crack in the magnet field was created by a rare phenomenon called a co-rotating interaction region (CIR) from the Sun. CIRs are large-scale plasma structures generated in the low and mid-latitude regions of the heliosphere – the region surrounding the Sun that includes the solar magnetic field and the solar winds – when fast and slow-moving streams of solar wind interact.
Like coronal mass ejections (CMEs), CIRs get flung out from the Sun towards Earth and can contain shockwaves and compressed magnetic fields that cause stormy space weather, which usually presents itself to us as pretty aurorae.
This one hit Earth’s magnetic field in the early hours of July 7 and caused a long-lasting G1-class geomagnetic storm. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) analysts suspect a CME was embedded in the solar wind ahead of the CIR, Spaceweather.com reports.
Don't worry, cracks in Earth's magnetic field are normal. The magnetic field acts as a shield to protect us from solar storms spat out by the Sun. It was thought they opened and closed relatively quickly but now we know they can stay open for hours.
"We've discovered that our magnetic shield is drafty, like a house with a window stuck open during a storm," said Harald Frey, lead author of a study on this discovery back in 2003.
(Excerpt) Read more at iflscience.com ...
Geeze...now wonder my GPS sent me to Cleveland yesterday instead of the Walgreen’s in Patterson,NJ!
Was there a Forbush decrease?
Walgreens, 639 E 18th St, Paterson, NJ 07501.
YW
We need to eat more bugs, and lower our fossil fuel use even more to fix this.
Also give Ukraine a trillion or so dollars, because at the end of the day, this is Putins fault, oh yeah and because of white supremacy.
This time it is different. Earth magnetic field is weaker than it had been, so the “drafts” are more intense.
“ CERN started up July 5.
Georgia Guidestone mysteriously blows up, continuous cameras not showing anybody planting explosive. Now this.
Pandora’s Box”
ALIENS!!!
Where are the congressional hearings?
I'm sure there are white supremacists involved...
Someones home needs to be ransacked in the middle of the night, and their racist occupants put out in the street in their pajamas.
Time for the poles to switch?
“Time for the poles to switch?”
Well, that would cap the year off nicely.
William Paterson (December 24, 1745 – September 9, 1806) was a New Jersey statesman and a signer of the United States Constitution. He was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, the second governor of New Jersey, and a Founding Father of the United States.
Born in County Antrim, Ireland, Paterson moved to the North American British colonies at a young age. After graduating from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and studying law under Richard Stockton, he was admitted to the bar in 1768. He helped write the 1776 Constitution of New Jersey and served as the New Jersey Attorney General from 1776 to 1783. He represented New Jersey at the 1787 Philadelphia Convention, where he proposed the New Jersey Plan, which would have provided for equal representation among the states in Congress.
After the ratification of the Constitution, Paterson served in the United States Senate from 1789 to 1790, helping to draft the Judiciary Act of 1789. He resigned from the Senate to take office as governor of New Jersey. In 1793, he accepted appointment by President George Washington to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. He served on the court until his death in 1806.
OMG get some rope and we’ll fix it
Fake news. The sun has no effect on the earth
We all know that is true because GLOWBULL WARMING is 100% caused by manmade CO2, the sun has no effect-Nobel Prize winner Al Gore proved this in 2007 IIRC < /sarc >
Well, that would cap the year off nicely.
It would. When up is down, right is wrong, boys are girls and girls are boys: why not make north south, and south north?
Take me back to 1960 !!!!
Dang!
Kept telling the wife I could hear something whistling on 7/7, but she couldn’t hear it...
Thanks BenLurkin.
[snip] The crack in the magnet field was created by a rare phenomenon called a co-rotating interaction region (CIR) from the Sun. CIRs are large-scale plasma structures generated in the low and mid-latitude regions of the heliosphere – the region surrounding the Sun that includes the solar magnetic field and the solar winds – when fast and slow-moving streams of solar wind interact. [/snip]
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