Posted on 08/08/2010 12:30:07 AM PDT by Cementjungle
The eruption hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space, just missing a direct sun-Earth line. Forecasters expect the cloud to deliver no more than a glancing blow to our planet's magnetic field when it billows by on August 9th or 10th--not be a major space weather event.
Future eruptions could turn out differently. Active region 1093 is rotating toward Earth. By the end of this weekend, we'll be in the line of fire if its magnetic fields become unstable again. Space Weather Phone subscribers will be the first to know.
(Excerpt) Read more at spaceweather.com ...
I can always tell when the sun is busy. The two FM talk radio stations around here turn into static magnets.
I guess the sun’s 12-year nap is over.
Hmmm. I thought it was a 10 year nap - maybe it is sleeping longer these days. Oh well, time for some active solar activity and even more warming. I expect the global warming specialists will have their day this cycle.
I thought it got cooler when the sun's more active
People of the Earth attention. People of the Earth attention. Look to your Sun for a warning...
Heh... well, I thought it got warmer with the sun’s activity which would be more obvious.
Oh well, the global warming specialists will find a way to make either their own...
Not close to warming yet. Just barely on the lower threshold of neutral. It was actually more active back in early February. What is currently happening is that the AGW promoters are hyping any activity at all. Which can kinda give you a little clue as to their disposition. Back in early February we were neutral for 5 days. Right now just barely neutral for three days. The sun has been having problems sustaining even neutral activity for more then a week. No warming for 6 1/2 years now. Still primarily cooling with short periods of neutral. That is why millions of freshwater fish just died in South America and millions of salt water and fresh water fish died in Florida last winter. Cold water.
Come and get us!
Ping
Heh.. Agree, yes, nothing here yet...just fodder for those silly folks that keep claiming otherwise. Was just a bit of a jest there...
I do believe the the sun has a much stronger influence on Earth’s temperature than the skeptics though. As most things we will have to wait a millennium or so to be sure...
Now according to my neutral range, we did have one day in the last 6 1/2 years where average net solar input was just slightly in the warming range. May 5th 2010. Had 77 sunspots that day. Then again, this is the NOAA and there are some critics that claim there are padding their numbers up just a little.
It all depends on the sun. If the monthly sunspot average for cycle 24 does not go significantly above 50, we are gonna be hurting. Every winter will be colder until possibly the next active period. If last winter did not wake em up, we shall see what happens this winter.
Yes, I was being a bit flip! My major point was the the sun’s cycle probably controls more of our climate than those idiot Climate Change specialists know or even care (actually, they seem to care about the money mostly). As to the rest...it’s just happening as it will...
Radio is tuned to WWV for results.
Did it? I don’t know. My wi-fi has been off lately since the 4th.
The 'Skymap' for tonight just after sunset...
If I didn't live in a%$#^& Light polluted subdivision now (dam committee)(1), I'd get out the telescope. Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn are all in view. How cool is that.
(1) The idiots decided we 'needed' new street lights that looked 'charming & old fashioned'. Now it's BRIGHTER than Michigan Avenue (The Mag Mile in Chi) on Christmas Eve!
the sun is ~11:00 position...Ping..in mexico tonight so very little light pollution. thank you for sharing this.
doh!!! ~10:00
very interesting
There is nothing wrong with street lights they just need an off switch.
You're very welcome. Happy viewing tonight.
Yeah an of switch would be good. Or a .22 short to the dam things.
(Glass is too think for a Pellet Rifle and a 9mm Makarov (9x18) is too much).
The problem is they just didn't replace the ones we had, which gave us a 'countryish' look and feeling (you could see the sky). They ADDED lights where we didn't need any, bought the wrong type, and light poles that are too short.
All this brought to you by the same people that says we must conserve energy to save the planet or we will all die!
Bush’s fault.
Exactly right.
The bottom line is our Board was lied to by the contractor. The lights were be energy efficient and were 'supposed to dim over time' but 1½ years later our streets look still like landing strips at O'Hare Airport.
They say 'action is being taken against the contractor', we shall see about that. I may have to buy a .22 Rifle again.
I never should have gotten rid of my 1st .22 I bought new for $20.00 in 1966. It fired .22 Shorts to .22 LR. It was a nice single shot bolt action 'plinker'.
It’s not light pollution — it’s roach repellent.
Thanks! I’ll go out and find a spot on the road where the trees thin out and take a look. Sorry about the light pollution. Have you thought of a BB gun?
Oops - suggested the BB without reading the subsequent discussion!
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Stepped outside to take a look at it, and I have clouds.... Lots and lots of clouds. Those three planets are always easily viewable with the naked eye. Never seen them that close together before. It WOULD have been neat to watch.... /cry
A 1000+ fps pellet will take out just about anything made of glass for outdoor use, including offending street lights.
Note to all street light shooters, everybody really appreciates a pile of glass in the street.
It is a good thing that the lights are free of all costs including labor to replace too.
Careful there BenLurkin.
When I was 4yrs old I was told to stay away from the waves at the beach due to the undertow.
I didn’t listen.
I ran up to the wave and went nanny goat, nanny goat and then would run away.
The undertow grabbed me and I thought I was a gonner.
Luckily a couple saw me being dragged out and ran in and saved me.
‘As most things we will have to wait a millennium or so to be sure...’
Please be sure to ping me then.
Our local weather up in the PNW is already claiming we will leave the El Nino (mild/warm) year and go into El Nina (cold/snowy) early year.
I prefer the EL Dude. Had a great year getting out to events.
Hope they are very wrong and El Nino sticks around for another year.
The sun controls ALL of our weather. Last Wednesday in Fredericksburg Va. the sun was going in and out from behind clouds and every time it did there was a 30 - 40 degree change in temperature within five minutes. Show me a man who believes anything other than the sun governs our climate and I’ll show you a man who never goes outdoors.
btrl
The real problem you have in the PNW is the PDO. That is a longer term ocean temperature trend. You can see both the La Nina and the PDO in the image below.
As can be seen below we are in the classic cool phase of the PDO. Warm phase is on the left. Cool phase is on the right. We have the exact cool phase conditions. Actually a very strong cool phase condition. In fact the PDO could be significantly adding to the cool shallow water conditions of the La Nina. Gonna get cold this winter in the atmosphere of North America.
Below are the typical shallow sea temps for El Nino (top) and La Nina (bottom). 
We have been in a cold PDO phase for most of the past 6-8 years. That was probably why we got so much snow last winter when the El Nino popped up. El Nino moisture combined with PDO cold. This winter we see what happens when La Nina combines with PDO cold. Should see bitter bitter cold. That is what they have down in South America right now.
Does this phenomena by chance have anything to do with drinking too much Corona beer? Morning after by chance?
Ewww! ....ain't gettin' close to that. 
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