Posted on 11/08/2011 11:27:48 AM PST by blam
NOAA Warns of Monster Solar Storm Region Facing Earth for Next Two Weeks; Fully Capable of Producing X-Class Flares
Mac Slavo
November 8th, 2011
SHTFplan.com
Last Thursday the sun produced an X1.9 rated solar flare that narrowly missed Earth. Although it wasn’t aimed directly at us, about 45 minutes after leaving the sun it was still powerful enough to disrupt radio communications.
Now, that same area responsible for producing the X-class flare may pose a direct threat to Earth.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center says that the region on the sun known as AR11339 and affectionately called the “Benevolent Monster” will set its sights on Earth. It will move into a position that poses the largest risk to our planet around November 9th, 2011 and remain on a direct line of sight with earth for the following two (2) weeks as it rotates:
Scientists at the federal Space Weather Prediction Center say that area is the most active part of the sun since 2005. It has dozens of sunspots, including one that is the size of 17 Earths.
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“It’s still growing. The size is what blows me away.”
Thursday’s flare wasn’t aimed at Earth. However, this active region is now slowly turning toward Earth, and scientists say it will be directly facing Earth in about five days.
That storm region will only affect Earth if it shoots off flares and they hit our planet, which doesn’t always happen with stormy areas, said prediction center space scientist Joe Kunches.
The region will be facing Earth for about two weeks as it rotates, he said.
Solar flares send out bursts of electromagnetic energy that can occasionally disrupt communications and electrical systems.
Sourced Via The Intel Hub
We’ll be facing the monster starting sometime this evening into tomorrow. Considering that it has just recently ejected an X-class flare towards Earth and another towards Venus, we should consider the region to be active and fully capable of affecting our planet.
While NOAA’s warnings fall short of any imminent ‘end of the world as we know it’ event, the risk over the next two weeks of a Carrington-like event are higher now than at anytime in the last decade. The 1859 Carrington Event, caused by a solar flare, reportedly knocked out telegraph operations around the world. It is believed that such an event, were it to occur today, could potentially take down the U.S. power grid for months or years and paralyze the entire globe:
Physicist Michio Kaku:
It could paralyze the economy of the planet earth. In 1859 we had a gigantic solar storm which knocked out telegraph wires back then, 150 years ago. If that had happened today it would knock out almost all our satellites, knock out power stations, there would be food riots around the country because refrigeration would stop, airplanes would probably crash without radar.
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And again, this is a once in a century, once in two centuries storm…
We do have them and we have to worry about them.
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We’d be thrown back 100 years.
Source: Top Physicist Says Solar Flare Would Set Us Back 100 Years
Patrick Geryl of How to Survive 2012 contacted us recently and contributed a short video describing the potential fall out of such an event. The consequences would be devastating and would include everything from power grid failure and food shortages, to savage riots and, eventually, a meltdown of nuclear reactors across the globe.
(Go to the site to view the video
There would be very little warning, if any, with estimates suggesting that once a solar event is detected it could take anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of days to impact earth.
But will Herman Cain still be the top story?
Wait a minute isn’t tomorrow suppose to be to EBS TEST or was that today? Imagine tho...no cell phones no cash registers/bank machines working...
Didn’t blackberries all go out last month? Anyone know why?
Where is the link to this information from NOAA directly?
Here’s all I found:
3-day Solar-Geophysical Forecast issued Nov 07 22:00 UTC
Solar Activity Forecast: Solar activity is expected to be moderate during the period (08 - 10 November) with a slight chance for high activity (M5 or higher) from Region 1339. There is also a slight chance for a proton flare from this region during the period.
Geophysical Activity Forecast: The geomagnetic field is expected to be at quiet levels during the period (08 - 10 November).
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/today.html
Thanks for the link, but that is where I went and was unable to find the forecast mentioned in the original post.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Bite your tongue.
Spaceweather.com forecasts a 10% chance of a Class X flare in the next 48 hours.
Telegraph wires back then had lengths of tens of miles, with loads of a fraction of a watt (the clicker). I doubt that a solar flare would register on today's power lines. Satellites might be another story, but I assume they harden them against flares.
I’m thinking that that site would be good more for keeping an eye on things to see what develops.
There was a small 10 minute aurora here in NY a couple weeks ago when an event that was supposed to miss the earth actually hit it instead. It allowed an aurora to show for about 10 minutes.
But it was not forecast either; I just happened to be in the right place in the right time to see it.
Well, Jane, it just goes to show you, it's always something!
If it's not one thing, it's another!
It’s November. In Wisconsin, that means no refrigeration needed until about April! :-)
It could also mean Obama and fellow criminals will all be in charge as riots happen.obama will have to use the newly tested EBS to suspend all elections.
When is the near miss asteroid that can only be seen on the east coast US with a huge lens?
thankfully my entire house is a faraday cage
It is lathe and plaster in the inside, except the lathe is not wood strips, it is this thick metal screen
I have a very hard time getting cell phone signals inside the house
March 13, 1989 Geomagnetic Storm
Seven months later I was in San Francisco for the Loma Prieta earthquake.
It was an interesting year for me.
Speaking of ‘outages’....
Global outage takes down sites and services across the internet
Router problem blamed...
By Nick Heath on 7 November 2011 17:37
NEWS
A global internet outage took down sites and services across the web on Monday.
The internet outage affected sites and services worldwide, including Time Warner Cable in the US and numerous ISPs in the UK
The outage began shortly after 14:00 GMT, and affected telco Time Warner Cable in the US and numerous ISPs in the UK, including Eclipse Internet and Easynet.
Several of the affected companies blamed the downtime on a problem with the firmware in Juniper Network routers.
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