Strong solar storm could disrupt communications and produce northern lights in US
Strong solar storm could disrupt communications and produce northern lights in US
An unusually strong solar storm headed toward Earth could produce northern lights in the U.S. and potentially disrupt communications this weekend.
An unusually strong solar storm headed toward Earth could produce northern lights in the U.S. and potentially disrupt communications this weekend.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a rare geomagnetic storm watch — the first in nearly 20 years. The watch starts Friday and lasts all weekend.
NOAA is calling this an unusual event, pointing out that the flares seem to be associated with a sunspot that’s 16 times the diameter of Earth. An extreme geomagnetic storm in 2003 took out power in Sweden and damaged power transformers in South Africa.
The latest storm could produce northern lights as far south in the U.S. as Alabama and Northern California, according to NOAA.
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My magnetic loop ham radio antenna is ready.
Fairly new to ham, what's nice to listen to during an aurora? Just funny noise bursts? Any antenna precautions so I don't fry my SDR?
NOAA's predicting a Kp index of 8.33, hopefully we'll get some good auroras tonight!
The K-index quantifies disturbances in the horizontal component of Earth's magnetic field with an integer in the range 0–9 (...)
The official planetary Kp-index is derived by calculating a weighted average of K-indices from a network of 13 geomagnetic observatories (...)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-index
Apparently might be visible from Ireland too! (edit: which presumably means the UK also)
Cloudy here.
From the article it looks like it will be starting on the 15th.
The last I read said it could start as soon as midday today.
Solar wind looks good right now. We’ll just see what happens.
I didn’t want to work today, so… bring it on.
Shame I was sleeping.
It is very strong right now. Hopefully it didn't arrive early and it picks up even more in 10-12 hours
This is the best summary I could come up with:
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An unusually strong solar storm headed toward Earth could produce northern lights in the U.S. and potentially disrupt communications this weekend.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a rare geomagnetic storm watch — the first in nearly 20 years.
NOAA said the sun produced strong solar flares beginning Wednesday, resulting in five outbursts of plasma capable of disrupting satellites in orbit and power grids here on Earth.
Each eruption — known as a coronal mass ejection — can contain billions of tons of solar plasma.
NOAA is calling this an unusual event, pointing out that the flares seem to be associated with a sunspot that’s 16 times the diameter of Earth.
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Ohh what I would give to see how the world is without internet services globally for like...a week. Make it your best solar flare sun, nothing but the best
