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'Severe geomagnetic storm watch' - the first in nearly 20 years - issued with NOAA warning the world's power grids, communication networks and satellite operations could be impacted
Daily Mail ^ | 5/10/2024 | Alex Hammer

Posted on 05/09/2024 10:28:36 PM PDT by caww

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To: Oscar in Batangas

Eek!

Please, no Carrington event.


21 posted on 05/10/2024 2:43:06 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Adder

Fred. I dub this Solar Storm Fred.

There, it has a name.


22 posted on 05/10/2024 2:44:29 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: caww

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.


23 posted on 05/10/2024 2:45:43 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: FreedomPoster

“Please, no Carrington event.”

Still using bare-wire telegraph lines?


24 posted on 05/10/2024 2:58:14 AM PDT by Justa
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To: Justa

And everyone thinks these are going to hit the US. If it strikes us at night…it’s a China-Russia problem. Just sayin’.


25 posted on 05/10/2024 3:03:01 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: caww

https://spaceweather.com/ doesn’t appear to be very impressed.


26 posted on 05/10/2024 3:11:30 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Justa

Don’t look now, but the transmission and distribution grid is largely bare aluminum conductors.

https://www.southwire.com/wire-cable/bare-aluminum-overhead-transmission-distribution/c/c-bare-aluminum-overhead


27 posted on 05/10/2024 3:12:13 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: mewzilla

Saw the sunspot in question with a good pair of binocs fitted with solar filters.

Mr. Sunny looked like he knicked himself shaving.


28 posted on 05/10/2024 3:13:20 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: caww

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.


29 posted on 05/10/2024 3:32:18 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: FreedomPoster

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/


30 posted on 05/10/2024 3:35:24 AM PDT by Justa
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To: FreedomPoster

Good...now I can be properly scared when I put plywood over my windows...

:]


31 posted on 05/10/2024 3:40:36 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: jimtorr
These warnings are coming rather frequently.

They come from the feds. Are we being set up the bomb?


32 posted on 05/10/2024 3:44:58 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (At the end of 2023, the country bounces along like Custer on the way to Little Big Horn)
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To: caww

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*


33 posted on 05/10/2024 3:55:58 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: caww

We’ve heard this over and over yet nothing happens.


34 posted on 05/10/2024 3:56:30 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: caww
We may have to postpone the November elections and issue a shelter in place order for the remainder of the year.

Better to be safe than sorry.

35 posted on 05/10/2024 3:57:55 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (6,575,474 Truth | 87,429,044 Twitter)
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To: caww
My dog is ready but then, he's ALWAYS looking for an excuse to wear his tinfoil hat:


36 posted on 05/10/2024 4:02:01 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: SamAdams76

Not just ours.

Note that the UK still hasn’t set a date for its general election yet.

And the clock’s ticking...


37 posted on 05/10/2024 4:02:23 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Mogger; jimtorr

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).


38 posted on 05/10/2024 4:27:39 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: caww
Moonlight can drive men to madness and lovers to swoon, but this night, for one last and glorious moment, it shines bright as a grim harbinger of dawn.


39 posted on 05/10/2024 4:32:54 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: jimtorr

Blame it on fossil fuels/human-caused Global Warming...........as everything else is caused by it (gout, ingrown toenails, stomach ache, etc.)


40 posted on 05/10/2024 4:36:00 AM PDT by traditional2 (lets go B*and*n)
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