Related to your post yesterday. Doesn’t help that the gov’t agencies can’t agree on the severity of this solar flare.
Solar Storm to hit on Bastille Day- July 14th....
March 13th 1989- Bastille Day...
March 13,1989; a powerful geomagnetic storm set off a major power blackout in Canada that left six million people without electricity for nine hours. According to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the flare disrupted electric power transmission from the Hydro Québec generating station and even melted some power transformers in New Jersey....Tthe entire province of Quebec, Canada suffered an electrical power blackout. Hundreds of blackouts occur in some part of North America every year. The Quebec Blackout was different, because this one was caused by a solar storm!
Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), associated giant clouds of plasma in space, are the largest explosions in the solar system. It was like the energy of thousands of nuclear bombs exploding at the same time. The storm cloud rushed out from the sun, straight towards Earth, at a million miles an hour. The solar flare that accompanied the outburst immediately caused short-wave radio interference, including the jamming of radio signals from Radio Free Europe into Russia
The Quebec Blackout was by no means a local event. Some of the U.S. electrical utilities had their own cliffhanger problems to deal with. New York Power lost 150 megawatts the moment the Quebec power grid went down. The New England Power Pool lost 1,410 megawatts at about the same time. Service to 96 electrical utilities in New England was interrupted while other reserves of electrical power were brought online. Luckily, the U.S. had the power to spare at the time…but just barely. Across the United States from coast to coast, over 200 power grid problems erupted within minutes of the start of the March 13 storm.
Different scales of concern with each agency.
I read that as "It's not going to strip off the atmosphere and oceans, but your 2 billion dollar satellite may be toast." ;)
/johnny
If Algore and all of his envirocultists would just bend over and fart towards the sun...
THIS IS SERIES!
Can I get a Faraday Cage at Home Depot?
An X10 or higher is good for possible light shows in mid-US latitudes. An X1.x, not so likely although possible. Depends on where the north magnetic pole is now (better for pictures, if it’s still way off).
It’s doubtful that this one will harm personal electronic items, unless they made an extreme error on the class of the flare.
For those of you watching to get pictures, try looking tomorrow night.
I guess there is no consensus and the science isn’t settled here.
I bet it’s still hot in the midwest.
Yes, magnetic north has moved beyond the Canadian Arctic Territory. So it’s pretty far off normal. Geo-magnetic effects might come through to us a little more than usual (re. possibly slightly weakened protection due to magnetic pole shift).
Look for more than usual weather fluctuations, though—maybe much toward cold fluctuations in about 4-6 years. We’ll see. But no, I don’t see any huge, imminent disaster resulting from the latest CME. Some of the sponsored media alerts tend to exaggerate much in recent years.
GeoHack - Magnetic North Pole 2012 est
https://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=North_Magnetic_Pole¶ms=85.9_N_147.0_W_&title=Magnetic+North+Pole+2012+est
Chicken Little wins hands down
If they would just scream "we're all going to die" I could relax.
But THIS is worrying.