Posted on 03/07/2012 10:16:15 AM PST by Bill Buckner
The sun unleashed a cosmic double whammy Tuesday (March 6), erupting with two major flares to cap a busy day of powerful solar storms. One of the flares is the most powerful solar eruption of the year, so far.
Both of the huge flares ranked as X-class storms, the strongest type of solar flares the sun can have. They followed several weaker, but still powerful, sun storms on Tuesday and came just days after another major solar flare on Sunday night.
... It is the strongest solar flare yet for 2012.
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"First-look data from Stereo-B are not sufficient to determine if the cloud is heading for Earth," astronomer Tony Phillips wrote on his website Spaceweather.com, which monitors space weather events. "Our best guess is 'probably, yes, but not directly toward Earth.' A glancing blow to our planet's magnetosphere is possible on March 8th or 9th." [Worst Solar Storms in History]
Astronomers rank solar flares by strength using five categories: A, B, C, M and X. The A-class flares are the weakest sun storms, while the X-class events are the most powerful solar flares.
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Tuesday's X-class solar flares followed a string of other eruptions that included M-class and C-class events, space weather officials said. Both of the day's X-class sun storms were stronger than the X1.1 solar flare of March 5.
Prior to this week, the only huge solar flare of 2012 occurred on Jan. 27, when the sun unleashed an X1.7-class eruption.
The sun is currently going through an active phase of its 11-year weather cycle. The current cycle is known as Solar Cycle 24 and is expected to reach its peak level of activity in 2013, NASA officials have said.
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The 'boss' thinks i'm crazy - she always does ...
However, you'll still die when the starving masses arrive.
God prepping the electronic battlefield for Israel...
I’m assuming that my tinfoil hat will be all the protection I will require to avoid sunburn, and Im also assuming that you don’t spend much time bar hopping in the Boston area.. Do you Bill?
My neighbor has barbed wire around his field. I suspect it is a FEMA concentration camp.
it couldnt hurt!
Seriously though - look up ‘Faraday Cage’ online and that should give you some answers
My house is metal-lathe and plaster on the interior walls and I have a heck of a time getting cell phone connection and/or using wireless phone inside the house
ROFLOL !!!
This article states that a glancing blow is possible tomorrow or the day after but I’d read something this morning that said the ejections directly aimed at earth. Coud be an interesting couple fo days...I’d like to see the aurora borealis from my front yard.
ping
She’s right. Only lead will shield you from the robot zombies with X-ray vision.
If we've had three X-class storms already this year, it would seem that the highest level on the scale is far too common to record truly extraordinary events.
Sounds like you might be able to see it from your basement :)
A,B,C,M, and X refer to the ‘type’ or energy spectrum of the Rays. X-rays are the most dangerous to humans.
OK, that is not at all clear from the article. They compare the scale to the Richter scale in that B is ten times stronger than A, and C is one hundred times stronger than A, etc.
Well.... they're not exactly rocket scientists.
Who told you that I built my own FEMA camp?
Maybe kill two birds, and use foil-faced insulation. The shiny side of it, though would go to the inside to retain heat, so it would have to be installed backwards to have the shiny side out.
In any case, don't forget the lead copper shingles, and run a ground cable.
Can’t believe nobody had pinged you to this yet. ;-)
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