[AusNOG] Twin solar storms head towards Earth

[Curtis Bayne]

> The CME arrival is expected to be midnight tonight AEST. Auroras
predicted to be visible from Southern Australian regions - Crow Eaters and
Taswegians lucky.

Those dirty southerners always get the best light shows. Damn you, Aurora
Australis.

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
:)

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Paul Brooks <pbrooks-ausnog at layer10.com.au>
wrote:

>  On 12/09/2014 6:40 PM, Curtis Bayne wrote:
>
> If you're looking for something amusing to entertain yourself with this
> fine Friday evening, this particular topic is HOT on all the prepper forums
> at the moment. Enjoy the hyperbole :)
>
>  For what it's worth, the BOM have a space weather department, available
> at http://www.ips.gov.au/
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>  Another blip on the radar, I am sure. I hope we see auroras here though
> - that would be a treat!
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> ...and right on cue on the www.ips.gov.au site:
> "Outage due to power failure. Some datasets unavailable."
>
> (relax - this was 6th August, well before the current CME - but it made me
> chuckle before I noticed the date!)
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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.
> 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.
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> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Paul Brooks <
> pbrooks-ausnog at layer10.com.au> wrote:
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>> And in the its-all-in-the-timing department.....published 2 hours ago
>>
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>> 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.
>> ....
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>> The National Weather Service has alerted power grid operators and the
>> Federal
>> Emergency Management Agency, just in case.
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>> 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
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