Posted on Mar 31, 2022
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Earlier this morning my Cousin Larry posted something about a Dual Coronal Mass Ejection from Our Sun which will reach us today, March 31st! Why is this important, you ask?
This post details what is happening that we should be concerned about...
Here is the first paragraph from this story:
"The sun has exploded to life, erupting several major solar flares and two coronal mass ejections towards Earth. The dual coronal mass ejections (CME) are due to merge and strike Earth on Thursday with significant impacts expected; due to that threat, NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a Geomagnetic Storm Watch (G3) for a strong storm. This strong storm may even be stronger, with a 4 or 5 storm possible on a 1-5 scale of geomagnetic storm. In addition to pushing the aurora south into the United States, there could be very significant impacts to electrical systems including power grids and power plants, radio and satellite communications, and navigation systems." BY WEATHERBOY TEAM METEOROLOGIST - MARCH 29, 2022
And there is much more... Check out the article...
Kerry
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This post details what is happening that we should be concerned about...
Here is the first paragraph from this story:
"The sun has exploded to life, erupting several major solar flares and two coronal mass ejections towards Earth. The dual coronal mass ejections (CME) are due to merge and strike Earth on Thursday with significant impacts expected; due to that threat, NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a Geomagnetic Storm Watch (G3) for a strong storm. This strong storm may even be stronger, with a 4 or 5 storm possible on a 1-5 scale of geomagnetic storm. In addition to pushing the aurora south into the United States, there could be very significant impacts to electrical systems including power grids and power plants, radio and satellite communications, and navigation systems." BY WEATHERBOY TEAM METEOROLOGIST - MARCH 29, 2022
And there is much more... Check out the article...
Kerry
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Dual Coronal Mass Ejections Due to Strike Earth Thursday with Significant Impacts; Geomagnetic...
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SFC(P) Larry Nahalea
The more we think we know, the more we find out that we really don't know. Mother nature is not timid at all.
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MAJ Bob Miyagishima
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen well to be quite honest with you in my area of the US (New Mexico) I wouldn't even know that this event occurred because nothing seem to have happened: watch now as soon as I get off this post, watch my computer Go haywire or something but thank God that we were protected
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This sounds scary. The article implies our computers will be damaged if we get hit at a scale of 4 or 5 and that's what they are predicting. Why are we just now hearing about this
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1SG (Join to see)
The warnings only come one there is a solar event, a flare or a coronal.mass ejection, neither of which are predictable in any practical way. The time for these balls of energy to reach earth is only two days so there isn't much time.
The danger is most severe when approaching the summer solstice when the north pole is most directly in line with the sun. The Earth's magnetic field protects us from most of these events, but the poles are where that protection is weakest. The energy can travel down the magnetic wells at either pole (summer is the greatest hazard because the northern hemisphere is both more populated and more developed) with an effect much like an EMP. It has happened before. Power lines caught fire. Transformers blew. The cost to recover from a major event would be in the trillions and the time it would take would put us back to the mid 1800's overnight.
The good news is that everything has to line up just right and the CME has to be strong enough. The odds are definitely in our favor. (And you'll note that this has already taken place earlier today with no meltdowns.)
The danger is most severe when approaching the summer solstice when the north pole is most directly in line with the sun. The Earth's magnetic field protects us from most of these events, but the poles are where that protection is weakest. The energy can travel down the magnetic wells at either pole (summer is the greatest hazard because the northern hemisphere is both more populated and more developed) with an effect much like an EMP. It has happened before. Power lines caught fire. Transformers blew. The cost to recover from a major event would be in the trillions and the time it would take would put us back to the mid 1800's overnight.
The good news is that everything has to line up just right and the CME has to be strong enough. The odds are definitely in our favor. (And you'll note that this has already taken place earlier today with no meltdowns.)
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MAJ Bob Miyagishima
1SG (Join to see) thanks for the detailed explanation and thank God nothing serious happened. In fact I've watched the news today and nothing was even mentioned in the news today.
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MAJ Bob Miyagishima the good news is that people in lower latitudes will get a treat of seeing the Aurora Borealis and HF radio propagation will be great for several weeks.
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Great post Sgt (Join to see) these events are also called Cannibal coronal mass ejections that happen when fast-moving solar eruptions overtake earlier eruptions in the same region of space, sweeping up charged particles to form a giant, combined wavefront that triggers a powerful geomagnetic storm. One "positive" effect is the possibility that points as far south as Pennsylvania could get Northern Lights.
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I noticed that the Northern Lights might be seen that far south of the Artic, PO2 Marco Monsalve... Let us hope that the Geomagnetic Storm level does not wipe out any of our satellites or our Power grid, Marco...
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