Posted on 12/16/2009 11:22:05 AM PST by TaraP
INCOMING CME: This morning at 0120 UT, an eruption of magnetic fields around sunspot 1035 produced a long-duration C4-class solar flare and hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) in the general direction of Earth.
High-latitude sky watchers should prepare for auroras when the CME arrives on or about Dec. 18th
Sunspot 1035 is growing rapidly and it is now seven times wider than Earth. This makes it an easy target for backyard solar telescopes. Yesterday, Rogerio Marcon of Campinas, Brazil, photographed a maelstrom of hot plasma and magnetic filaments connecting the sunspot's dark cores:
Solar activity is picking up," he says.
The magnetic polarity of the spot identifies it as a member of Solar Cycle 24--the cycle we've been waiting for to end the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century. One spot isn't enough to end the lull, but sunspot 1035 could herald bigger things to come. Stay tuned for updates.
MONSTER FIREBALL: On Monday morning, Dec. 14th, at 3:59 am Pacific Standard Time, a piece of extinct comet 3200 Phaethon hit Earth's atmosphere over the Mojave desert in California. This was the result. The fireball occurred during the Geminid meteor shower, which peaked on Dec. 13th and 14th when Earth passed through a stream of debris from 3200 Phaethon. In some places, people saw 200+ Geminids per hour. In the Mojave desert, one was enough...
>>ALGORE must have contacted the SUN.
Well, it will be hell to pay when he eventually contacts the SON.
1. This will do major havoc to everything going through satellites, for an extended period. Get prepared to lose use of your cellphones and GPS enabled systems.
2. this will put the capper to any questions about what effects *the SUN* affects our “GloBULL Warming”.
...and will likely destroy all the arguments the crooked EnviroEnslavers have put forward to pull off their Worldwide criminal Hoax.
Shame on all of us...20 posts, and not one "Bush's Fault"
OK. Its Bush's FAULT!!
There. My job is done for the day. :-)
I’m going to open a “Spot and Trade” Exchange; the franchise rights alone will make millions!
We saved money in AC but lost out on all our strawberries and tomatoes.
I’d say we came up even in the end.
Wouldn't matter if it was 15 years from now or next year. They would make something up and the sheep would buy it.
Look for rough weather over the eastern Atlantic into G.B. and Europe around the 21st-25th.
I went sailing with my kid today.
Winds about 20 m.p.h.
Temp; 78
And things in Michigan?
That’s seriesly hugh.
In Chicago we had an exceptionally long snap pea season.
It's not going to happen. The environmental whackos have stopped talking about global warming. The operative phrase is now Global Climate Change.™
Global Climate Change™ is so much handier than global cooling or global warming ever were. It doesn't matter whether it is warmer, cooler, dryer, wetter, windier, less windy, etc. Whatever the weather happens to be anywhere in the world, it is caused by Global Climate Change.™
It's all Bush's fault. Bush and those damned SUVs.
Women and minorities will be hardest hit.
*sniff, sniff*
You make me tear up.
I hate winter.
Why Michigan then?
Can’t get much more wintery than that?
Yes...maybe my wife’s tomato(e) plants won’t freeze next summer!! And I have to hear about it endlessly!!
We have a long ways to go yet until Solar Activity Levels produce a net warming effect on Earth. Right now we are about half way to neutral. We had more activity then this back in March 2008. Sunspot activity is just one component of many. But basically, you do not get any net warming until you see a whole lot of black spots over the suns surface. In fact the latest prediction from NASA state that we will only have a short peak period of warming from cycle 24, and NASA has consistently predicted more activity then has actually occurred so far with cycle 24.
Don’t depend on it, mother nature will trick you, down here in SE NC I can put them out in March, we’ll see.
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