SOLAR WATCH * Huge X8.2 Flare Sept. 10, 2017! (Updated Daily)

The quadrupole magnetic field isn't an uncommon phenomenon. I agree with Tom that the Japanese Hinode team is over-hyping this observation (maybe to get their minds off of Fukushima). Dr. Strong (I know, he's a goofball sometimes) did a decent video explaining the Sun's magnetic pole flip and the cause of the quadrupole.

[link to www.youtube.com]

M and M two CME's to hit the earth at once on the 16th wow.
[link to www.spaceweather.com] nice graphic here. Double whammy.

I'm confused by this video. He describes quadrupole as being 4 temporary bands (+/-/+/-) going down latitudinally while the sun sorts itself out during the transition.

However what Hinode means by quadrupole, is two + polarities on the north and south pole, balanced out by two - polarities on the equator. (Diagram) [link to www.setyoufreenews.com] (+/-/-/+). Also, it isn't to be temporary or transitional, but stay that way the whole upcoming cycle, after which the south pole may or may not return to scheduled programming and flip.

Then Strong goes on to say this situation has occurred the last 3 cycles. But he's talking about the North and South poles having the same polarity, again, temporarily or transitionally, en route to completing the flip and then having the usual opposing polarities for the duration of the cycle. Hinode is describing North and South poles of the same polarity for at least one entire cycle.

Of those 3 previous cycles he refers to, each time unanimous polarity occurred the unflipped pole was weakening and visibly en route to joining it's colleague in the reboot process. This time, as of yet there is no weakening in the unflipped pole, no evidence of an attempt to flip. That is what is new and unusual, the prospect of only one pole resetting this solar max. Do you really think the scientists at NASA and Hinode missed such obvious details as are being pointed out in this video? Does that make any sense at all?

Not only is this video very strange, Strong then goes on to release another video May 22 ( [link to www.youtube.com] wherein he brags that nothing has happened with the poles. Except if he simply checked the polar field strength ( [link to wso.stanford.edu] , he would see that effective May 22, ironically, the North polar field shut down and rebooted in the opposite polarity. AKA, it flipped. At this point this guy seems pretty silly in my eyes.

I'm surprised there's been almost zero discussion of this here. The North just flipped and the South isn't budging at all, it's extremely interesting.

Beginning of another LDE?
[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]
Peace

i actually don't think we ever ended the first one.