[AusNOG] Twin solar storms head towards Earth

[Alan Maher]

Just heading outside to check on my $2 solar  garden lights.
I would hate it to see them fried by the "Force".

On 12/09/2014 10:25 p.m., Joshua D'Alton wrote:
>
> It's God's retribution for the iPhone orders he's going to fry them 
> all with this EM field!!
>
> sent from a potato
>
> On 12/09/2014 6:29 pm, "Paul Brooks" <pbrooks-ausnog at layer10.com.au 
> <mailto:pbrooks-ausnog at layer10.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     And in the its-all-in-the-timing department.....published 2 hours ago
>
>     http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/twin-solar-storms-head-towards-earth-20140912-10g5z6.html
>
>     Small risk for a possibly interesting weekend if these cause EM
>     issues with power
>     grids etc.
>     If you experience problems with radio and satellite comms, please
>     post here and let us
>     know!
>
>     "Two big explosions on the surface of the sun will cause a
>     moderate to strong
>     geomagnetic storm on Earth in the coming days, possibly disrupting
>     radio and satellite
>     communications, scientists say.
>
>     The unusual storm is not likely to wreak havoc with personal
>     electronics but may cause
>     colourful nighttime auroras, or displays of the Northern Lights,
>     late Friday and early
>     Saturday.
>
>     "We don't expect any unmanageable impacts to national
>     infrastructure from these solar
>     events at this time but we are watching these events closely,"
>     said Thomas Berger,
>     director of the Space Weather Prediction Centre at the National
>     Oceanic and
>     Atmospheric Administration.
>     ....
>
>     The National Weather Service has alerted power grid operators and
>     the Federal
>     Emergency Management Agency, just in case.
>
>     The strength of the storm pales in comparison to major geomagnetic
>     storms of years
>     past, such as the 1859 Carrington event that wiped out power
>     across a swath of Canada.
>
>     It is also weaker than a near-miss geomagnetic storm in July 2012
>     that NASA scientists
>     said could have knocked Earth's technology back at least 150 years.
>
>     That storm didn't cause mass damage because the fast-moving
>     energized particles were
>     not directed straight at Earth.
>
>     "The events that just occurred over the last 24 hours were
>     Earth-directed, they are
>     just not that big," said William Murtagh, program c
>
>
>
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     AusNOG mailing list
>     AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net <mailto:AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net>
>     http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> AusNOG mailing list
> AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog



---
This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active.
http://www.avast.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/attachments/20140912/e04c8f77/attachment.html>