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Geomagnetic storm warning as solar flare expected to directly hit Earth today
SKY News ^ | October 11, 2021 | by Alexander Martin

Posted on 10/11/2021 4:13:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

A massive solar flare is due to hit Earth today, authorities are warning - potentially disrupting power grids and bringing the Northern Lights as far south as New York.

The flare - officially known as a coronal mass ejection (CME) - was observed on Saturday on the side of the sun directly facing our planet and comes as we enter a period of increased solar activity.

An alert was published by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) which warned the geomagnetic storm could cause power grid fluctuations with voltage alarms at higher latitudes, where the Earth is more exposed.

NOAA added that satellites may be impacted too and could exhibit "orientation irregularities" meaning ground control would have to redirect them, as well as anything in low-Earth orbit experiencing increased drag.

The geomagnetic storm could reach category G2, which is moderately strong according to the agency.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; carringtonevent; catastrophism; cme; coronalmassejection; faraday; geomagnetic; science; sida; sol; solarflare; storm; sun
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1 posted on 10/11/2021 4:13:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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2 posted on 10/11/2021 4:26:40 AM PDT by Bratch
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2 on a scale of 5 is “Moderate”...

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation


3 posted on 10/11/2021 4:36:45 AM PDT by deks
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Never seen the Northern Lights before...or the Southern ones either. I’ll have my camera ready and hope for clear skies.


4 posted on 10/11/2021 4:38:24 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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Good thing I have plenty of beer and cigars.


5 posted on 10/11/2021 5:07:09 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wait till mr carrington eturns


6 posted on 10/11/2021 5:14:33 AM PDT by panzerkamphwageneinz (0 )
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Fishing in Canada one evening we ran our boat aground because we were looking up at the northern lights. We actually drove the boat through about 50 yards of reeds growing in the shallows before we got stuck in the muck.


7 posted on 10/11/2021 5:19:51 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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Is this where they shut down the internet and blame it on that?


8 posted on 10/11/2021 5:23:05 AM PDT by Old Yeller (You canโ€™t obey your way out of tyranny.)
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Never seen the Northern Lights before...or the Southern ones either. Iโ€™ll have my camera ready and hope for clear skies.

You will need to be very far north, usually above (or below I suppose) the 45th parallel, be situated in a place FAR AWAY from any light pollution whatsoever (including farm lights,) and you'll need a tripod on your camera with a long exposure if you hope to photograph it.

I have seen the northern lights from both northern Michigan and southern Idaho two or three times in my life, and each time they have been very dim to the naked eye.

You might have better luck closer to the Arctic Circle, I don't know.

9 posted on 10/11/2021 5:23:06 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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"Never seen the Northern Lights before...or the Southern ones either."

I remember seeing the aurora borealis (as my Mother use to call it) in southern Ohio, in the early 50's.. But light pollution is so bad now we can hardly see the stars at all.. I haven't seen the Milky Way in years..

10 posted on 10/11/2021 5:27:43 AM PDT by unread (Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire)
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CQ CQ CQ! Hoping for some good radio propagation!


11 posted on 10/11/2021 5:44:08 AM PDT by freebird5850 (The only way I can treat this fever....More cowbell!)
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Just on the south side of 45 and during those rare times we dont have lake effect cloud cover I see them on a fairly regular basis.


12 posted on 10/11/2021 5:56:01 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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I guess today isn’t a good day to give up smoking or drinking, or meth, or sniffing glue, or ....


13 posted on 10/11/2021 6:24:24 AM PDT by Kartographer
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14 posted on 10/11/2021 6:39:00 AM PDT by 4Liberty (Let's Go, Brandon! ๐Ÿ‘ ...๐Ÿ‘ ...๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If its not an X its not going to do anything.


15 posted on 10/11/2021 6:53:05 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Ha! Always prepared...


16 posted on 10/11/2021 7:08:23 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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ROFL!!! So well played!


17 posted on 10/11/2021 7:10:22 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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# 2 on a scale of 5 is โ€œModerateโ€...

Yup. Solaham’s take...

A moderate (G2) geomagnetic storm watch will be in effect beginning Monday, October 11th when a coronal mass ejection (CME) observed on Saturday is expected to sweep past Earth. Aurora sky watchers should be alert within the next 48-72 hours. The CME was the result of an M1.6 solar flare around AR 2882, now directly facing Earth.

For all your solar weather news, see solarham...

https://www.solarham.net/


18 posted on 10/11/2021 7:10:27 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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I will never forget my trip to Fairbanks back in the winter of 1969. In the USAF, we were TDY for two weeks there. I enjoyed the time there. My crew chief spent the entire time drunk as a skunk.

On our last night there, we were preparing to leave. He, griping about how he hated the time there(he never left the base) and how he had not even seen the Northern Lights.

I simply said...”Well, look up.”
Above us the Northern Lights had been displaying it’s glory for the last two weeks, but he never even thought to simply look up.


19 posted on 10/11/2021 7:12:10 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (OUT OF FB JAIL! and back on the attack. For how long? )
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Ooh, Northern lights as far south as NYC. Wonder what the losers will have to say about lights inna sky.

If only some would claim it is “climate change” — “Umm, so you think the sun is behind changes in earth’s climate? Let’s talk about that.”

Naah.


20 posted on 10/11/2021 7:14:49 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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