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

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

[wxgesr]

But will Herman Cain still be the top story?

[AnAmericanAbroad]

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

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?

[SumProVita]

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

[Johnny B.]

Thanks for the link, but that is where I went and was unable to find the forecast mentioned in the original post.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Bite your tongue.

[buccaneer81]

Spaceweather.com forecasts a 10% chance of a Class X flare in the next 48 hours.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

LOL at the web site logo... funny but true...

[jaydubya2]

"We’d be thrown back 100 years."

That doesn't sound all that bad.

[PapaBear3625]

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.

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.

[metmom]

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.

[McGruff]

Well, Jane, it just goes to show you, it's always something!
If it's not one thing, it's another!

[crosshairs]

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

Or at the very least, give you an erection lasting longer than 4 hours. If this occurs, see your doctor.

[knittnmom]

It’s November. In Wisconsin, that means no refrigeration needed until about April! :-)

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

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.

[crosshairs]

"We’d be thrown back 100 years."

At least we'd have prayer in schools and 50 million less abortions.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

When is the near miss asteroid that can only be seen on the east coast US with a huge lens?

[Mr. K]

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

[buccaneer81]

I was in Montreal caught in the middle of this:

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.

[Uncle Ike]

Speaking of ‘outages’....

http://www.silicon.com/technology/networks/2011/11/07/global-outage-takes-down-sites-and-services-across-the-internet-39748193/

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.