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Recent solar flare information: NASA news briefing thursday about space weather threats

singular — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:40:15 +0000

NASA and NOAA will discuss recently discovered details about the structure of solar storms and the impact they will have on Earth. The new information comes from NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, spacecraft and other NASA probes.
The briefing will be broadcasted live August 18, 2011 from 2:00PM (EDT) on NASA TV

Source: http://www.myweathertech.com/2011/08/17/solar-flare-activity-prompting-nasa-to-convene-a-news-briefing-thursday-in-washington/

Sunspot 1263 doubles in size in just 28 hour: X-class flare could occur

singular — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:13:02 +0000

Sunspot 1263 doubles in size

Sunspot 1263 has doubled in size over the past 28 hours. According to SDO/HMI it has a “beta-gamma-delta” class magnetic field that harbors energy for X-class solar flares, the strongest class for solar flares.

X-class flares have a high probability of disrupting power grids and wireless communication.

Interestingly, sunspot 1263 will be almost in the same place as sunspot 1261 last week, which erupted 3 times causing earth-directed M-class flares.

Source: http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=07&month=08&year=2011

ALERT: third strong solar flare in a row, major impact expected

singular — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:09:40 +0000

2 solar flares merged into one huge CME

A major geomagnetic impact is expected August 5th around 10:00 (UT), as two strong M-class flares have merged into one giant flare, according to GSFC Space Weather Lab.

August 4th, a third strong CME was ejected from our sun,

“The impact on Earth is likely to be major. The estimated maximum geomagnetic activity index level Kp is 7 (Kp ranges from 0 – 9). The flanks of the CME may also impact STEREO A, Mars and Mercury/MESSENGER.”

See the animation for the projected path: Earth is the yellow dot.

source: http://www.spaceweather.com/

UPDATE: NOAA explains what is happening (video)

sun: two massive M-class CME’s will arrive august 5th and 6th

singular — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:35:28 +0000

Sunspot 1261 erupted on August 2nd at 0619 UT, producing a long-duration M1-class solar flare. Today (august 3th) an even bigger eruption occured (M6-class)

The blasts hurled 2 CME’s almost directly toward Earth.

Source: http://www.spaceweather.com/

images: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/beacon/ (NASA beacon data)

Controlled power cuts likely as Sun storm threatens national grid

singular — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:06:06 +0000

Officials in Britain and the United States are preparing to make controlled power cuts to their national electricity supplies in response to a warning of a possible powerful solar storm hitting the Earth. In an interview with The Independent, Thomas Bogdan, director of the US Space Weather Prediction Centre, said that controlled power “outages” will protect the National Electricity Grids against damage which could take months or even years to repair should a large solar storm collide with the Earth without any precautions being taken.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/controlled-power-cuts-likely-as-sun-storm-threatens-national-grid-2296748.html

Interesting CME one day after this one http…

singular — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:16:47 +0000

Interesting CME (one day after this one http://conspirates.com/2011/06/09/nasa-films-incredible-solar-flare-video-of-unique-sun-explosion/ ) resulting in a dark round object/plasma being ejected

NASA films incredible solar flare: Video of unique sun explosion

Mr X — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:51:40 +0000