Posted on 06/10/2014 9:52:45 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
The sun unleashed two major solar flares early Tuesday (June 10) in amazing back-to-back storms from our nearest star.
The first flare, a powerful X2.2-class solar flare, hit its maximum at about 7:42 a.m. EDT (1142 GMT). The second powerful X1.5-class flare, followed quickly behind, blasting out from the sun at 8:36 a.m. EDT (1236 GMT). Both flares could cause radio communication blackouts on Earth for about an hour, according to an alert from the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado. NASA's sun-observing Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a video of the flares from space.
"Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation," Karen Fox, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center said in a statement. "Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground. However, when intense enough, they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel." [The Biggest Solar Flares of 2014 (Photos)]
Officials with the prediction center do not think there will be a coronal mass ejection — a burst of plasma sent out from the sun — associated with the first flare, but they will continue to analyze the data they collected on the flares.
"Area of impact consists of large portions of the sunlit side of Earth, strongest at the sub-solar point," ...
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Thanks for that..
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SOHO web site
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
Here’s a blast of hot plasma in the old eyeballs of climate changelings.
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Coincidentally, the spraying of the skies over the South Bay has lessened, maybe they’re concerned of the effects of solar flare activity on micro[particles released in the atmosphere to slow global varming. I have clear blue hazy skies here today that glimmer occasionally but not like they used to earlier this year. :-]
The flares are a result of you idiots who continue to use the internal combustion engine.
Ever read the novel One Second After?
No...
...It wasn’t the Sun...
It was me... the two Taco Bell Big Beef Burrito Supremes I had for lunch aren’t sitting well... the second one lifted me three inches off my seat...
...And I’m sorry for any confusion, electrical disturbances, or olfactory distress it may have caused...
Be careful what you wish for...
I pass on passing judgment on your sudden passing..
Two of em? wow.
Thanks for reminding me, I need to go pollute and run some errands.
https://news.yahoo.com/25-years-ago-amazing-auroras-1989s-great-solar-113634466.html
I was living in Huguenot NY when that happened.
We lost power for a few days.
There were red aurora visible to the north.
Take a look on a map and see where “Port Jervis NY” is, I was a few miles north of PJ.
It was a blast, absolutely dark that night, still, quiet, people standing outside wondering what happened.
Bush’s Fault!
First physics experiment was it? :)
... swear I heard someone yell “Launch!” just before the second one happened...
“Particle accelerator cannon test successful! Neighbors are upset.” - journal entry found amid ruins.
Thought so. :)
Is there an ETA for this thing ,Unable to find anything else about it so far.
Been and gone from what I can gather.
Obamalamadingdong should sign an executive order regulating this sort of activity...That will fix it and prevent it from ever happening again.
That was quick.
have put my solars in the shed as a precaution.
Having them on 6’ poles does have its advantages.
Yeah, the flare wasn’t pointed at us, but the X-rays took out radio for a bit.
X-rays; oh great, i was out in that.
*checking the time*
Yep, a full chest X-ray. Maybe i’ll get super powers like Jeff Dumham’s Mervin. *chuckle*
LOL!
Shouldn’t be that bad, actually.
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