NOAA says tonight's 'cannibal' solar storm could be worst in 165 YEARS and cause GPS and power outages - as they reveal exact time it'll hit

Daily Mail ^ | 5/10/24 | Stacey Liberatore

[week 71]

Earth could suffer the worst solar storm in 165 years as six streams of plasma that erupted from the sun this week are set to make crash into our atmosphere tonight.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) revealed Friday that the worst-case scenario would be what happened during the 1859 Carrington event, which set telegraph stations on fire, cutting communications worldwide.

In our modern-day society a geomagnetic storm - a major disturbance of Earth's magnetosphere- of that magnitude would cause widespread electrical disruptions, blackouts and damage to critical infrastructure.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I used to sell this whole house surge suppression system called Stedi Volt through my mortgage business. I have one installed in our house. It takes 6,000 volts to fry it and it has a clamping speed of less than one nano second. It may get a work out tonight. 😉

[PIF]

I am going to put some microwave popcorn out in the yard and see what happens.
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The coons will love you.

[VanShuyten]

“No real explanation for the “cannibal” terminology....’

I believe it’s when several smaller flares join with a larger one. Not sure about where they got the “cannibal” terminology out of that, but I blame it on lowered educational standards.

[Fido969]

True. But don’t forget the significant contributions of systemic racism and homophobia to the event!

POC and gays hardest hit.

[SVTCobra03]

Signs and wonders.

[doc maverick]

There’s a lot interesting info on the link you provided.
Thank you.

[Jane Long]

LOLOL .... that’s it!

Always cracks me up!

[higgmeister]

This is silly.

[cyclotic]

Yep. Really well compensated too.

[higgmeister]

Your amp is going to be fine.

[rktman]

Faraday cage?

[pfflier]

plasma that erupted from the sun this week are set to make crash into our atmosphere tonight.

"make crash" Editor??? Editor??

[P.O.E.]

As usual, cloudy here in NE Pennsy for all the good night sky events.

[steve86]

My point is that shocking stuff would have already occurred. But OTOH, God certainly is capable of bending the rules to chastise America, if that is His intent.

[higgmeister]

During the Carrington Event, telegraphers were getting shocked and even though they turned the machines off the solar energy was still giving them power. Several telegraphers in Boston and Maine communicated with each other for several hours wth the machines turned off.

People need to understand in our digital age, with fiber optics and microwave communications, we are much less susceptible to solar storms than we were in the 1960s.

Telegraph messages are no longer sent on solid core wires on telegraph poles.

[higgmeister]

LOL   Yeah, put it in a Faraday cage.   I don't know how you are going to rig the isolation transformers in and out of the Faraday cage though.

...And a good time was had by all.

[Tai_Chung]

In other news, Russia is no longer in Ukraine and the last coal power plant has been closed proving the brilliance of President Biden’s policies.

[cp124]

Is there a Pfizler mRNA vax for it? Will it help if we stand 6 feet apart.

[R_Kangel]

..... Ha .... My guess is that there may be a few glitches in some navigation for a few minutes but other than that we will all be laughing about this tomorrow LOL.

..... Anyways ... I'm heading to my bunker for the night .... So I'll see ya all tomorrow ....

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[NWFree]

Bahahahahahaha. Here we go again just like last time and the time before and the time before when *NOTHING* happened. Go pull somebody else’s leg for a change