They come from the feds. Are we being set up the bomb?
Posted on 05/09/2024 10:28:36 PM PDT by caww
Eek!
Please, no Carrington event.
Fred. I dub this Solar Storm Fred.
There, it has a name.
Early 70s I worked high power (50KW CW) HF comms from Lajes Field to RAF Croughton, Andrews AFB and Rota Spain. Freqs that ranged from the 5 MHz (night) to 24 MHz (full daytime).... One day a SIDS (Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance) hit and washed out EVERYTHING. Only thing that worked was a UHF TRC-24 system to another island in the Azores cluster.
Only thing you could do is go to highest authorized frequency and sit and wait for the ionosphere to start working normally.
“Please, no Carrington event.”
Still using bare-wire telegraph lines?
And everyone thinks these are going to hit the US. If it strikes us at night…it’s a China-Russia problem. Just sayin’.
https://spaceweather.com/ doesn’t appear to be very impressed.
Don’t look now, but the transmission and distribution grid is largely bare aluminum conductors.
Saw the sunspot in question with a good pair of binocs fitted with solar filters.
Mr. Sunny looked like he knicked himself shaving.
I bet commies Johnson, Jeffries, McConnell, Xiden are furious they can’t send another yet $30 billion to Ukraine for what is left of their power grid.
Seriously though I can recall arriving at my cottage in northern Michigan about 25 years ago about 1:00 AM and watching the aurora which was so bright and constant you could read a newspaper outside. We saw the northern lights all the time but not like this, except the year LOL.
Eyeroll. So, how much current will the exposed conductors absorb? And do those lines not have solid state circuit breakers?
The issue with 1859 was bear wire, long distances and no circuit breakers allowed excess the current to build up.
What about a lightening strike? Those are also powered by charged particles and are millions of times more powerful than a space borne CME’s charged particles.
Still want to worry? Then replace your power strip surge protectors before the event. I just use smart UPSs. They click when they do line conditioning (surge or drop). Most electronic devices nowadays have electronic surge protectors built into them anyways.
More help here: https://www.apc.com/us/en/
Good...now I can be properly scared when I put plywood over my windows...
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They come from the feds. Are we being set up the bomb?
How has Mankind managed to survive from Adam & Eve to the present day without the guidance of NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center? *SMIRK*
The local Weather Guessers can’t even give me a solid 5-day ‘forecast’ in my own back yard - and NOW they can predict ‘Space Weather?’
Laughable - but will no doubt be a money-maker for our ‘betters’ and their families!
*SPIT*
We’ve heard this over and over yet nothing happens.
Better to be safe than sorry.
Not just ours.
Note that the UK still hasn’t set a date for its general election yet.
And the clock’s ticking...
I’ve been observing those sunspots in my telescope, and they are no joke.
The area on the Sun that is covered by that one sunspot cluster is larger than this planet, by far. With the right filter, they should be visible without any magnification. Just make sure it’s the right kind of filter.
Here’s a couple of links:
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast
https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/realtime-update.html
In the second link you can see, first image in the second row, a clear image of the sunspot complex (solar continuum image).
Blame it on fossil fuels/human-caused Global Warming...........as everything else is caused by it (gout, ingrown toenails, stomach ache, etc.)
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