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'STEVE' descends on North America after surprise solar storm
livescience.com ^
| Brandon Specktor
Posted on 08/09/2022 6:38:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
STEVE (short for "strong thermal velocity enhancement") is a long, thin line of hot gas that slices through the sky for hundreds of miles. The hot air inside STEVE can blaze at more than 5,500 degrees Fahrenheit (3,000 degrees Celsius) and move roughly 500 times faster than the air on each side of it, satellite observations have shown.
Whereas the northern lights occur when charged solar particles bash into molecules in Earth's upper atmosphere, STEVE appears much lower in the sky, in a region called the subauroral zone. That likely means solar particles aren't directly responsible for STEVE, Live Science previously reported. However, STEVE almost always appears during solar storms like Sunday's, showing up after the northern lights have already begun to fade.
One hypothesis suggests that STEVE is the result of a sudden burst of thermal and kinetic energy in the subauroral zone, somehow triggered by the clash of charged particles higher in the atmosphere during aurora-inducing solar storms.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; atmosphere; aurora; auroras; brandonspecktor; catastrophism; cme; coronalmassejection; heat; physics; science; sida; sol; solarstorms; steve; subauroralzone
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posted on
08/09/2022 6:38:00 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
The whole thing sounds gay.
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posted on
08/09/2022 6:40:47 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. It's "whatever".)
One hypothesis suggests that STEVE is the result of a sudden burst of thermal and kinetic energy in the subauroral zone …
“That’s what
she said.”
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posted on
08/09/2022 6:45:06 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
08/09/2022 6:47:45 PM PDT
by
sevlex
To: BenLurkin
just wait till there is a Karen, or worse a Brandon
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posted on
08/09/2022 6:51:34 PM PDT
by
algore
To: BenLurkin
uummmm...(...scratching head...) ...since when have they had prior notice of a solar storm?? arent they all a surprise?? lmfao...
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posted on
08/09/2022 6:52:33 PM PDT
by
sit-rep
( )
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
08/09/2022 6:53:15 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: BenLurkin
>>500 times faster than the air…
STEVE speed is a function of the flow of the jet stream? Cold front down drafts of super cells?
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posted on
08/09/2022 6:53:17 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: BenLurkin
Maybe that’s why it was so warm here today?
Stupid Steve!
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posted on
08/09/2022 6:56:32 PM PDT
by
griffin
(When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
To: Olog-hai
“One hypothesis suggests that STEVE is the result of a sudden burst of thermal and kinetic energy in the subauroral zone”
Sorry, but one has to ask whether these types of storms have been detected on Uranus.
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posted on
08/09/2022 6:56:35 PM PDT
by
BobL
(The Globalists/Neocons desperately want Ukraine to win...makes it easy for me to choose a side)
To: BenLurkin
“...hot gas that slices through the sky for hundreds of miles?”
I thought he was talking about Stacy Abrams.
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posted on
08/09/2022 6:57:12 PM PDT
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need a Nazi Gestapo)
To: BenLurkin
Steve has really changed over the seasons...
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posted on
08/09/2022 6:58:17 PM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
08/09/2022 6:59:15 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: Alas Babylon!
Is that the "Wild Mountain Honey" guy?
That song was playing on Yacht Rock Deep Cuts just a few hours ago.
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posted on
08/09/2022 6:59:23 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(3,687,909 users on Truth Social)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/09/2022 7:00:33 PM PDT
by
EvilCapitalist
(81 million votes my ass.)
To: EvilCapitalist
They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.
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posted on
08/09/2022 7:04:51 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: BenLurkin
The world would be a better place if they did though.
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posted on
08/09/2022 7:06:37 PM PDT
by
EvilCapitalist
(81 million votes my ass.)
To: ClearCase_guy
The whole thing sounds gay. What would his Adam say?
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posted on
08/09/2022 7:12:15 PM PDT
by
tflabo
(Truth or tyranny )
To: SamAdams76
Steve Harrington, Stranger Things cast.
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posted on
08/09/2022 7:16:45 PM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
To: BenLurkin; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; ...
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posted on
08/09/2022 7:17:48 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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