'STEVE' descends on North America after surprise solar storm

livescience.com ^ | Brandon Specktor

[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.

[SamAdams76]

Got it. Looked like a young Steve Miller.

I've got to get caught up on the "Stranger Things" show - I hear it's good. I saw part of the first season and it looked like it was shaping up to be a good show.

[SaveFerris]

(The hot air inside STEVE can blaze at more than 5,500 degrees Fahrenheit)

Quick! Put Steve in reverse!

[SaveFerris]

(Looked like a young Steve Miller)

Well, some people called him a Space Cowboy 🚀 🤠....

[dfwgator]

[Flaming Conservative]

And?

[upchuck]

God is speaking. But is anybody listening?

[WKUHilltopper]

I knew a guy a work named Steve. He also emitted “...hot gas that slices through the sky for hundreds of miles”. Especially after lunch.

[gleeaikin]

What a lot of stupid comments about what could be an interesting new scientific phenomenonl Could this have anything to do with recent solar flares or the very large sunspot currently moving to face the earth?

[SunkenCiv]

I agree, and such topics are not just in a topic like this, suggesting a concerted effort by (possibly paid) trolls to destroy FR.

Anyway, this phenom will probably remain unexplained for a good while.

[snip] 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. [/snip]

[SunkenCiv]

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[gleeaikin]

Large numbers of stupid and especially gay oriented joking does not improve the tone of FR. At Ukraine War posts I have seen that the pro Putin commenters are likely to use the gay slur in various forms. Americans are entitled to various opinions regarding relative corruption of Russian or Ukraine government officials, but gay slurs or comments like little Zelensky is light in the loafers, do not improve the arguments.

Note to blam: glad to see the grain is starting to move.

[SunkenCiv]

After getting my Spotify password reset (what a rigamarole!) I put the Rogan/Schoch thing on (nearly three hours). I think I've got a copy of it from the earlier online version, but anyway, have watched it, and it's from 2018, not 2020.