The M-Class is a full halo CME, the type to bring a classic solar storm to the planet upon impact. Don't be alarmed to see your GPS place you far from where you are or take some time to locate you.
This should impact electronic devices worldwide, arriving in just under six hours from now.
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link to www.theweatherspace.com]
Hmmmmmm...... This is the first model i have seen that shows the big cme hitting tonight...what is up with that??? If thats the case then the SOB is moving fast....
this got my attention, but then after reading it i had a big "OHHHHHH!!!!"
it's from GLP's kevin martin, and when giving the report, he is mixing up the differance between a solar flare, and a CME
from the article:
Many are saying an M-Class is not all that strong and won't do anything, however TheWeatherSpace.com Senior Meteorologist
Kevin Martin explains why one is.
"It is not the strength of the flare, but the direction, speed, and impact on the planet," said Martin. "You can have an X-Class solar flare coming and it won't hit right for any major impacts. Most of our major events that impacted the planet, taking cell service and GPS out were M-Class events, similar to this one."
speed is always about the same, 8min from the sun to earth
that is because the FLARE is LIGHT.
any flare that is registered on the Xray flux, IS impacting earth
if it registers as a M9, that is because M9 worth of Xray light is being registered at earth
If that M9 flare is coming from the limb of the sun, it could infact be a X5 flare, but only M( worth is being registered by our Xray monitors here on earth
all in all, a M1 is a M1 period(or whatever size the flare is). it is earth directed (because thats where its monitored at) and it reaches us in about 8min (because a Xray is light.
the CME from yesterday was in no way moving fast enough to arrive tonight. yesterdays CME left the sun at around 1100km
i would have to do the math, but it would take many times that speed to make it here by tonight
