[AusNOG] Twin solar storms head towards Earth

[Joshua D'Alton]

I think it is still some days away, so unless they are also time travelling
lights (hmmmmm, is THAT an interesting relativity question or what? does
light from a garden light in the future shift towards red or blue?)?

:P

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Alan Maher <alanmaher at gmail.com> wrote:

>  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>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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