<div dir="ltr">> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The CME arrival is expected to be </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="">midnight</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> tonight AEST. Auroras predicted to be visible from Southern Australian regions - Crow Eaters and Taswegians lucky. </span><div><br></div><div>Those dirty southerners always get the best light shows. Damn you, Aurora Australis.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope all the night owls have their cameras out tonight! If this isn't a fizzer, then I'll be watching Twitter and Flickr for the inevitable beauty :)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Paul Brooks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbrooks-ausnog@layer10.com.au" target="_blank">pbrooks-ausnog@layer10.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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entertain yourself with this fine Friday evening, this
particular topic is HOT on all the prepper forums at the moment.
Enjoy the hyperbole :)
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<div>For what it's worth, the BOM have a space weather
department, available at <a href="http://www.ips.gov.au/" target="_blank">http://www.ips.gov.au/</a></div>
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<div>Another blip on the radar, I am sure. I hope we see auroras
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...and right on cue on the <a href="http://www.ips.gov.au" target="_blank">www.ips.gov.au</a> site:<br>
"Outage due to power failure. Some datasets unavailable."<br>
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(relax - this was 6th August, well before the current CME - but it
made me chuckle before I noticed the date!)<br>
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The CME arrival is expected to be midnight tonight AEST. Auroras
predicted to be visible from Southern Australian regions - Crow
Eaters and Taswegians lucky. <br>
I was lucky enough to see an aurora (dark brown/purple) from suburbs
of Adelaide when I lived there in my youth. Back then we didn't have
such good visibility that the protons were incoming.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Brooks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbrooks-ausnog@layer10.com.au" target="_blank">pbrooks-ausnog@layer10.com.au</a>></span>
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its-all-in-the-timing department.....published 2 hours ago<br>
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<a href="http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/twin-solar-storms-head-towards-earth-20140912-10g5z6.html" target="_blank">http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/twin-solar-storms-head-towards-earth-20140912-10g5z6.html</a><br>
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Small risk for a possibly interesting weekend if these cause
EM issues with power<br>
grids etc.<br>
If you experience problems with radio and satellite comms,
please post here and let us<br>
know!<br>
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"Two big explosions on the surface of the sun will cause a
moderate to strong<br>
geomagnetic storm on Earth in the coming days, possibly
disrupting radio and satellite<br>
communications, scientists say.<br>
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The unusual storm is not likely to wreak havoc with personal
electronics but may cause<br>
colourful nighttime auroras, or displays of the Northern
Lights, late Friday and early<br>
Saturday.<br>
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"We don't expect any unmanageable impacts to national
infrastructure from these solar<br>
events at this time but we are watching these events
closely," said Thomas Berger,<br>
director of the Space Weather Prediction Centre at the
National Oceanic and<br>
Atmospheric Administration.<br>
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The National Weather Service has alerted power grid
operators and the Federal<br>
Emergency Management Agency, just in case.<br>
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The strength of the storm pales in comparison to major
geomagnetic storms of years<br>
past, such as the 1859 Carrington event that wiped out power
across a swath of Canada.<br>
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It is also weaker than a near-miss geomagnetic storm in July
2012 that NASA scientists<br>
said could have knocked Earth's technology back at least 150
years.<br>
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That storm didn't cause mass damage because the fast-moving
energized particles were<br>
not directed straight at Earth.<br>
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"The events that just occurred over the last 24 hours were
Earth-directed, they are<br>
just not that big," said William Murtagh, program c<br>
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