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Are you ready for more flares?

#1 Postby wx247 » Sun Nov 16, 2003 4:32 pm

DENVER -- Astronomers say the sun is regrouping for another round of solar explosions, which can disrupt airline communications and electrical power. The new sun storms could target Earth around Thanksgiving -- the nation's busiest travel holiday.

In recent weeks, sunspot activity has flung huge clouds of charged particles at least 11 times. But only the storm on Oct. 28 had much impact on Earth. It caused a blackout in Sweden, damaged satellites and upset airline radio communications.

NASA scientists say the past few weeks have been one of the most dramatic periods ever observed on the sun. They say the solar storms they've seen are as rare as a blizzard in July -- in California.
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#2 Postby streetsoldier » Sun Nov 16, 2003 5:43 pm

Well, one of the elements in our stove quit on us...the landlord said it's "back-ordered", and we are afraid that we won't be able to roast our turkey.

Maybe if we leave it outside, the flare will "do it to it", y'think? :wink:
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#3 Postby Stormsfury » Sun Nov 16, 2003 6:26 pm

The solar flares should not be nearly as intense as the Geomagnetic storms that were produced a few weeks ago, particularly by Sunspot 486 when it released the X28 flare just as it was going out of view ... Such solar storms are very rare and probably won't be anything near as speculator as the event we just witnessed. Fortunately, there was only one major CME that was directly hurled at Earth, and very fortunate that 486 didn't unleash the X28 blast towards Earth ...

Sunspot 484 has come back around but is nowhere near the size that it was when it was first visible ...

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#4 Postby cycloneye » Sun Nov 16, 2003 6:35 pm

During the past flares I haven't seen the effects from it in the communications by sattellites only what happened in Sweden .If anyone knows what negative effect the past flares in the last 2 weeks occured apart from the Sweden area you can post them or it was media hype?
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#5 Postby ColdFront77 » Sun Nov 16, 2003 6:40 pm

I heard there were some communication problems with the geomagnetic storm of about two weeks ago. They were as bad as expected/they could of been.

The media reported what astronomers were observing.
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