Big Solar Storm Will Hit Earth Friday

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Big solar storm will hit Earth Friday Oct 24th

BOULDER, COLO. - A strong geomagnetic storm is expected to hit Earth on Friday. Scientists say it may knock out electrical grids and satellite communications.

A "sunspot cluster" said to be 10 times the size of Earth could damage satellites and power grids, as well as cable TV, pager and cellular telephone service.

Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colo., say it is one of the largest sunspot clusters in years.

Larry Combs, a forecaster at the federal Space Environment Center in Boulder, says the sunspot cluster released a chunk of the sun's outer atmosphere early Wednesday morning.

NASA's Goddard Space Center says the sunspot clusters produce a "coronal mass ejection" – an explosion of gas and charged particles from the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere.

In 1997, television networks in the U.S. were affected when satellites used to beam programming to local stations were knocked out of service.

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Written by CBC News Online

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[John H K]

That's NOT the sunspot that sent out the CME. THAT sunspot has done absolutely NOTHING all day, amazingly enough. There's a sunspot BARELY coming into view on the lower left part of the sun that has been launching massive flares all day. NONE of these sent CMEs towards earth. THERE'S NO SOLAR STORM COMING, FOLKS.

I know that's difficult to believe with all of these major media outlets picking up the original AP story from this morning and repeating it, but it's true.

Even spaceweather.com changed its analysis from this morning when it realized its error...look at the site. Changed which sunspot it originated from and now only talks about a "glancing" blow from a CME.

Unfortunately, nobody bothered to alert the mainstream media to the mistake.

[BurbankKarl]

Time to loot the supermarkets

[Brad’s Gramma]

LOL!!!!!!

[Squantos]

Gotta go tune into Art Bell ......Stay Safe !

[Nexus]

The middle sunspot indeed is the one. It sent a large X5 class CME out yesterday, which will hit us tomorrow. You are right about how it did nothing today, though. The sunspot on the side of the picture unleashed an X5 today, although it will only deliver a glancing blow in 2 days. Look here: http://www.spaceweather.com/ and especially here (for mpegs): http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/mpeg/

[Nexus]

When I say today, I mean 10/23. I haven't been to sleep yet...

[footstomper]

I am in south central Nebraska- and out in the country we can at times see the Northern Lights. When I was a kid we lived on the very outskirts of town, and often could see them. You might have a chance of seeing them out away from the city lights. Worth a try at least.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

What will we do if FR gets knocked offline?

Call up AlGore, the inventor of the Internet, perhaps?!

[CounterCounterCulture]

So this is it...we're going to die.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

LOL!!!!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

NO WE'RE NOT! We're going to turn into brats!

READ THE WHOLE THREAD for Pete's sake.

(hehe)

[CounterCounterCulture]

I've read too much "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" ;-)

[Brad’s Gramma]

Wanna have some fun? I'll ping you to a thread....

[CyberAnt]

Have you heard any info as to the time of day it might start effecting stuff ..??

[CounterCounterCulture]

"coronal mass ejection"

This happened to me once. Couldn't go to the prom.

[Squantos]

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/

Hey "H" !.......Check out how songs get stuck in our noggins on this link (scroll down for Oct 23 stories aka playlist from hell) ..... Funny Read

Sadly Art Bell is gone ....snif , wimper......:o(

Stay Safe !

[Concentrate]

Scientists say it may knock out electrical grids and satellite communications.

Not a light bulb will go out. Besides. Who are these so-called "scientists"?

[lorrainer]

Best line of the movie: "Daddy would've gotten us Uzis."

[Davea]

"THERE'S NO SOLAR STORM COMING, FOLKS."

Party pooper!

[backhoe]

Useful links here:

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