Posted on 09/07/2005 1:51:14 PM PDT by dhuffman@awod.com
SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY BULLETIN #05- 8 2005 September 07 at 01:31 p.m. MDT (2005 September 07 1931 UTC)
**** POWERFUL SOLAR FLARE ERUPTS ****
One of the largest solar flares on record occurred today, September 07. Very active Region 808 produced a powerful X17 flare (R4 on the NOAA Scale) observed on the NOAA GOES satellite at 07/1740 UTC (September 07, 1:40 p.m. EDT). This flare, the 4th largest in the last 15 years, erupted just as the Region 808 sunspot cluster was rotating onto the visible disk of the sun. Intense radio emissions were also associated with this flare. A very bright and fast coronal mass ejection was observed on coronagraph imagery; however, the material was not Earth directed. An S1 - S2 radiation storm is expected following this eruption, but is not expected to begin until late on September 07 or early September 08. This event created a complete blackout of high frequency communications on the daylit side of Earth. Communications used by emergency services along the Gulf Coast may have experienced problems due to this flare. Low frequency navigation systems may also have experienced a period of significant degradation. Over the past two weeks, this active region produced a series of significant solar eruptions as it made its passage around the back side of the Sun. Significant eruptions are expected in the coming days.
Agencies impacted by space weather storms may experience disruptions over the next two weeks. These include spacecraft operations, electric power systems, HF communications, and low-frequency navigations systems.
(Excerpt) Read more at sec.noaa.gov ...
The Dim's jackass won't know which haystack to spin into more hay end-product.
The sun is getting angry at Bush for not signing Kyoto and is flaring up.
/sarc
Yeah!
And Bob Denver would still be alive today if Bush had been more responsive in getting him off the island. Bush killed Gilligan!
the one good thing about the government giving out $2000 is that it will make its way to the private sector and not Washington. To me it is good news.
It won't be different than the minimum wage, merely pumping at the inflation handle.
Where are the space ships???
O-boy, now we get to hear about global warming and the ozone hole, and how the Bush environmental and tax policies caused it all. Were DOOMED!
I walked outta the house without my lunch this morning, and I forgot to put on deodorant. Damn September...
Past tense?
The tenses are a bit odd.
No, this time it's Mayor Nagin: He sucks so bad the corona of the Sun is being pulled towards the Earth.
Better stock up on aluminum foil, there's going to be aluminum foil riots by tomorrow.
Thanks. It's not just my missing something then...
Latest excuse for Democrat screw up in N.O. The communications gear was out.
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