Solar Storm coming

[Handley_Page]

Look out for Saturday mid morning (UT) folks.
There's another big solar storm on its way which could affect all the electronics laying about. What makes this one noteworthy is that it's coming straight at us.

 

[trysail]

X-Class solar flare blasts CME directly at Earth
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/12/x-class-solar-flare-directs-cme-directly-at-earth/




http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/News070712-X1.1flare.html

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/665855main1_20120706-Xflare-670.jpg​

http://www.spaceweather.com/

http://www.spaceweather.com/images2012/12jul12/20120712_193500_anim.tim-den.gif?PHPSESSID=6apjdevalia9t5fjk5a92r30p7​

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/pro_3d.html

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/Proton.gif​

 

[sr71plt]

Didn't notice anything. Anybody? (Of course I didn't get out of bed until 10 a.m.)

 

[lovecraft68]

I didn't notice anything.

Then again I'm blind in my left eye, maybe it happened on that side.

 

[YoursSINSerely]

We've had cloud cover here until a couple of hours ago. Probably all driftiing off to Canada by now.

 

[michchick98]

I was just getting home from work around 10. And I was on the computer on and off til about 2 and nothing happened there.

 

[sr71plt]

We're about to have one of them thar regular thunderstorms roll over us in the next minute or two. We need the rain.

 

[jomar]

The bacon cooked on the stove without turning it on, but otherwise, not so much.

 

[3113]

I AM SOLARIA! EMPOWERED AND TRANSFORMED, I SHALL SOAR AMONG THE STARS AND THE UNIVERSE WILL BE MINE--


Solar storm? Really? No. Didn't notice anything.

 

[topace]

Nothing to report here, except the smoke that's coming south from all the forest fires up north. *cough**cough*

 

[mcguinness]

I noticed all the people panicking about what a big deal this was going to be suddenly forgot all about it. That's what I noticed. On to the next imaginary crisis!

 

[Handley_Page]

I noticed all the people panicking about what a big deal this was going to be suddenly forgot all about it. That's what I noticed. On to the next imaginary crisis!

Who said it was to be a 'crisis' ?
But (so far) none of my electronic equipment has reported 'failed'; the trick though was that most of the fish in the local canal stopped feeding. . . .

 

[mcguinness]

Who said it was to be a 'crisis' ?
But (so far) none of my electronic equipment has reported 'failed'; the trick though was that most of the fish in the local canal stopped feeding. . . .

Nobody here, but I spotted a few dunces on Facebook sure this was the next Y2K.

 

[JackLuis]

The sound of a coronal mass ejection, video !

This video, from Space.com and the University of Michigan, turns a coronal mass ejection from March 7th into some fantastic sounds—some resembling tinkling bells, and others sounding more like a 7th grade boys' locker room.

Or Ra getting his rocks off?

 

[Dual_Triode]

Sparkle and Grunt. Band name alert!

 

[JackLuis]

HUGE explosion on the Sun on June 7, 2011

The Sun let loose with an enormous explosion on the morning of June 7, 2011. The entire eruption was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. The animation here is from the ultraviolet camera, colored orange to make it viewable.

Appllo busts a nut!

 

[3113]

Appllo busts a nut!

Is he still in the after glow?

 

[TE999]

That damn solar flare has my iPhone's Auto Correct substituting the word 'fuck' for every verb I type. I've sent several flaming e-mails to Steve Jobs about this but he never answers me. The nerve!