NOAA Warns of Monster Solar Storm Region Facing Earth; Fully Capable of Producing X-Class Flares

SHTF Plan ^ | 11-8-2011 | Mac Slavo

[blam]

It's Always Something (IAS)

[blam]

Got Faraday Cages?

[Kartographer]

Preppers PING!

[txmissy]

And we’re supposed to have the big emergency test tomorrow...interesting.

[American in Israel]

Is an X class flare what they used to call a CME or Coronal Mass Ejection?

Musta been a hard night out for the sun, its blowing chunks...

[SueRae]

Solar warming?

Sounds ominous..but I’m as ready as I ever will be. Thanks to a lot of ‘prepper’ advice here. There will always be something that wasnt thought of or done.. plan for the worst, hope for the best.

[End Times Sentinel]

Does this mean Free Republic might be down for a while?

[b4its2late]

11-11-11

[Tenacious 1]

Wait a minute. I didn’t think the earth was suppose to end again until 2012?

Where’s my Myan Calendar?

[Johnny B.]

I just went to the noaa.gov web site, and I can't find any such warning. It's certainly possible that I'm missing it, but HERE is what I found:

IB. 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.

IIA. Geophysical Activity Summary 06/2100Z to 07/2100Z: The geomagnetic field was at quiet to unsettled levels. Solar wind speeds ranged between 300 to 375 km/s while the Bz component of the interplanetary magnetic field did not vary much beyond +/- 5 nT.

IIB. Geophysical Activity Forecast: The geomagnetic field is expected to be at quiet levels during the period (08 - 10 November).

[omega4412]

One place to follow this sort of thing — including auroras — is spaceweather.com

[Brett66]

At last, X-Class flares should be able to give me the radiation necessary to acquire superpowers.

[MrB]

X class eh?

Oh Noes!

Well, at least they aren’t Y class - those are killers.

[Tenacious 1]

And we’re supposed to have the big emergency test tomorrow...interesting.

You need to go plant that nugget on DU. What a show.

(if you do, ping me and I'll bring popcorn)

[donhunt]

I can’t bother with all this right now.

I’m too busy keeping an eye on the asteroid that’s buzzing by us in the next two days.

[metmom]

AURORA TIME!!!!!

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Capable of Producing X-Class Flares

''Hmmmm. X amount''
(Steve Martin in ''The Jerk'')

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Bush’s fault.

[txmissy]

LOL - yeh, I’d need popcorn AND beer for that show.

[metmom]

Here’s a place to keep an eye on things.

Space Weather Now
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SWN/