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Posted on 07/15/2022 7:21:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The recent flare is directed towards the Earth and is expected to cause significant blackouts to GPS navigation systems, which could end up disrupting journeys for small aircraft and ships. Ham radio or amateur radio operators will face some disruptions due to this solar flare, which has a 10 percent chance of being an X-class solar event. Astronomers are not yet sure if the flare was also accompanied by a coronal mass ejection (CME), which could result in a geomagnetic storm in a couple of days.
The timing of the solar flare brings back memories of another solar flare that erupted on July 14, 2000, and is remembered as the Bastille Day event since it coincided with France’s national day.
The CME that accompanied this solar flare was received a day later and saw auroras flash in the night sky in the U.S., whereas, in some areas, it appeared as if the sky was on fire, a report for Spaceweatherarchive.com said. By the time the geomagnetic storm subsided, auroras had been seen in Texas, Florida, and Mexico.
The event is also special for astronomers as it was the first major event after the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) was launched, and researchers caught a glimpse from up close as to what really happens on the solar surface during a solar flare.
(Excerpt) Read more at interestingengineering.com ...
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That’s OK I never listen to Radio
Solar flare events take 8 mins to get to earth to affect the magnetosphere and add radiation to the atmosphere. So we should already be cooked or the grid blown up yet? /sarc. Chicken littles looking for advertising and scare jumps
Women and minorities hardest hit.
Hey, there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch, pardner.
Not as funny article from recent past....
https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/50249/20220415/solar-flare-end-life-earth.htm
and NASA one earlier....
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/23jul_superstorm
I’ll email 📨 you as soon as it goes down
Light takes 8 mins, but a CME takes a day or two.
Shades of 1659 when the telegraph lines melted. Imagine what that would do now.
Didn’t we just have one? Grrrrrrreta needs read in on this. Maybe make a trip to scold the sun? 🚀🌞. Butt she needs to go at night.
The particles which do the most damage can take hours to a week to reach Earth.
I finally got my shortwave charged-up...
73s!
Hasten the collapse by one or two years, lol.
I won’t say it but you know I’m thinking it
88!
It’ll probably be fine, I’m sure that’ll never happen again.
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