The one I'm thinking of was in the range of X-17, something around there. Things are looking up, we may be getting into the new cycle... The P.V. Sundancers are beginning to awake.
Posted on 12/23/2009 4:05:28 PM PST by winoneforthegipper
Yesterday, Dec. 22nd at approximately 0455 UT, magnetic fields around sunspot 1036 erupted, producing a C7-class solar flare. NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft was almost directly above the sunspot at the time of the blast and recorded this extreme ultraviolet movie:
The shadowy wave racing away from the blast site is a "solar tsunami"--a swell of hot, magnetized plasma about 100,000 km high packing as much energy as a million megatons of TNT. The tsunami petered out before it went more than halfway around the sun, but another manifestation of the blast is still going. The eruption hurled a faint coronal mass ejection (CME) into space and the billion-ton cloud should cross Earth's orbit on or about Dec. 25th. A glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field could spark polar auroras for Christmas.
(Excerpt) Read more at spaceweather.com ...
Here’s the link to the movie....
http://www.spaceweather.com/images2009/22dec09/eit195.gif?PHPSESSID=rb2qgaka6mgbkipahpfko8j9n6
Does this mean summer is coming?
So does this herald the return of global warming?
I liked the pics of the snowflakes lower on the page.
70 degrees in Dallas today...maybe algore is right.
This was an exciting coronal mass ejection . Much of the now well known global cooling has been the result of no flares or even sun spots. We have had 83 solar flux and the most sun spots in months (43) and are well on are way in solar cycle 24!! The ice age is less likely but polar caps will continue to expand for awhile.
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The one I'm thinking of was in the range of X-17, something around there. Things are looking up, we may be getting into the new cycle... The P.V. Sundancers are beginning to awake.
Watching for it.
“Now how much of that is influenced by Sol, you got me....”
All winds and the energy they contain has the sun as it’s origin.
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Yeah, but I couldn’t get squat on 15 meters today.
On the other hand, Austria was booming in on 20 meters
But, but Algore said GW is caused by man. Not the sun...
Heh......I flipped thru the Weather Channel today, and noticed that sunset is one minute later tomorrow.
Cool! Errrrr, um, Hot!
WOOOHOOOOO!
Well, it sure wasn’t “man”. We are not a hair on a ant’s butt.These flat earth kooks that made this stuff up will decay into history as Al Gorians who hoped to take our money and control our lives on a lie.They are so pathetic to watch as the die like worms on a snow covered sidewalk.
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