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NOAA Confirms Start of New Sunspot Cycle (disrupts civ&military comm, elec grids, GPS, cellphn)
AP, NOAA Space Weather Prediction ^
| January 4, 2008
| NOAA
Posted on 01/04/2008 5:40:01 PM PST by bd476
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To: xcamel
Thanks for posting that image from SOHO, Xcamel.
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posted on
01/04/2008 7:09:30 PM PST
by
bd476
To: rednesss
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posted on
01/04/2008 7:10:23 PM PST
by
bd476
To: Cobra64
Heh, where's a good rimshot when we need one.
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posted on
01/04/2008 7:12:27 PM PST
by
bd476
To: bd476
I have been predicting the appearance of a high latitude spot this winter. The solar flux minimum was late Sept.-early Oct. Data since then suggested to me that we were on the leading edge of Cycle 24. SSN981 just confirms it. First 6M F2 up here Spring/Fall 2011 is my best guess. GL es CUL
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posted on
01/04/2008 7:53:36 PM PST
by
Blue_Spark
(de N7DB CN85tj)
To: BenLurkin; bd476; Wonder Warthog
Interesting link from NOAA. Generally speaking the people at NOAA—and this is from 2001—just can’t write anything for the public and climate without throwing man-made global warming in there.
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posted on
01/04/2008 7:54:56 PM PST
by
Brad from Tennessee
("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
To: bd476
Heh, where's a good rimshot when we need one.
Rim Shot
Click the Pic J
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posted on
01/04/2008 8:03:43 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: fremont_steve
It's a quote from VE1DX's 'DX stories' page. W6AUD's (SK) style of writing and characters are now being written by Paul VE1DX. W6AM is mentioned in the one of the stories written by W6AUD...
THE STONE THAT KNOWS DX
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posted on
01/05/2008 9:19:29 AM PST
by
steveo
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
To: Beowulf; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Normandy
"Hot Air Cult" ~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ping~~
To: bd476
Global Warming?
Yep, lots of times:
Algore's Great-Great-Great-Great Uncle AzGore hoodwinks the sheeple by "Making the Sun Go Dark" during a solar eclipse.
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posted on
01/05/2008 10:54:24 AM PST
by
VxH
(One if by Land, Two if by Sea, and Three if by Wire Transfer)
To: bd476
Well, time to fire up the Bearcat 210 again and scan for DX in the 30 to 50 Megacycle band.
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posted on
01/05/2008 5:12:28 PM PST
by
Nowhere Man
(Is Barak "HUSSEIN" Obama the Anti-Christ?)
To: Fiddlstix
fiddlstix wrote: Rim Shot Click the Pic Thanks Fiddlstix.
... here all week, and don't
forget to tip your click
this photo:
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posted on
01/06/2008 2:44:40 PM PST
by
bd476
To: bd476
It’s only one sunspot and hardly at the level of knocking satellites out of orbit yet.
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posted on
01/06/2008 2:52:16 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
To: RightWhale
RightWhale wrote: "It’s only one sunspot and hardly at the level of knocking satellites out of orbit yet."
Where did you read that a sunspot was
"...at the level of knocking satellites out of orbit..."
?
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posted on
01/06/2008 3:12:33 PM PST
by
bd476
To: Brad from Tennessee; eyedigress; Blue_Spark; steveo; BenLurkin; xcamel; Fiddlstix; All
NOAA / Space Weather Prediction Center
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Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3
Serial Number: 1429
Issue Time: 2008 Jan 06 1716 UTC
ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu
Threshold Reached: 2008 Jan 06 1710 UTC
Station: GOES12
Observed Yesterday: No
NOAA / Space Weather Prediction Center
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:53:46 PM PST
by
bd476
To: All
This electron flux plot contains the 5-minute averaged integral electron flux (electrons/cm2-s-sr) with energies greater than or equal to 0.6 MeV and greater than or equal to 2 MeV at GOES-12 (W75) and GOES-11 (W135). These data are invalid during a significant proton event because of sensor contamination at the GOES spacecraft.
Enhanced fluxes of electrons for an extended period of time have been associated with deep dielectric charging anomalies.
Noon and midnight local time at the satellite are plotted as N and M.
Electron Flux
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posted on
01/06/2008 5:21:01 PM PST
by
bd476
To: bd476
On the “sudden impulse” what is the definition?
To: RightWhale
It will be quite a few months before we see any significant numbers of sunspots. Wont help us this winter at all and we will probably see another cold winter in the Southern Hemisphere. The Northern Hemispheres next winter will be cold but with perhaps less rain/snow. At present, they will have 14 feet of new snow in the Sierra Mountains by Monday just from the past few storms. What will be key is the magnitude of Solar Cycle 24. NASA already predicts cycle 25 to be very low.
To: humblegunner
“What is a cellphn?”
A very rare cousin of the dolphin, which only rises from the depths of the ocean during high sunspot activity.
(just kidding : )
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posted on
01/06/2008 10:13:48 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Just saying what 'they' won't.)
Well, lets see...It is predicted to start in Mar 08 PLUS OR MINUS 6 months....
Guess it isn’t an exact science now is it, if that is the best an INTERNATIONAL PANEL OF EXPERTS can do
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posted on
01/06/2008 10:26:39 PM PST
by
xrmusn
To: justa-hairyape
NASA already predicts cycle 25 to be very low. Are space weathermen more accurate than meteorologists?
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posted on
01/07/2008 10:13:24 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
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