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Hurricane Force Winds - 17 Inches of Snow -1,600 Homes Without Power - Historic Blizzard Amarillo, Texas
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The declining overall Magnetic Fields of Sunspots in Recent Years is of particular relevance,seen here in Gauss [ link to science.nasa.gov] Article [ link to science.nasa.gov] A Abstract of a Penn/Livingston Paper - ' Long-term Evolution of Sunspot Magnetic Fields Matthew Penn, William Livingston (Submitted on 3 Sep 2010)
Independent of the normal solar cycle, a decrease in the sunspot magnetic field strength has been observed using the Zeeman-split 1564.8nm Fe I spectral line at the NSO Kitt Peak McMath-Pierce telescope. Corresponding changes in sunspot brightness and the strength of molecular absorption lines were also seen. This trend was seen to continue in observations of the first sunspots of the new solar Cycle 24, and extrapolating a linear fit to this trend would lead to only half the number of spots in Cycle 24 compared to Cycle 23, and imply virtually no sunspots in Cycle 25. We examined synoptic observations from the NSO Kitt Peak Vacuum Telescope and initially (with 4000 spots) found a change in sunspot brightness which roughly agreed with the infrared observations. A more detailed examination (with 13,000 spots) of both spot brightness and line-of-sight magnetic flux reveals that the relationship of the sunspot magnetic fields with spot brightness and size remain constant during the solar cycle. There are only small temporal variations in the spot brightness, size, and line-of-sight flux seen in this larger sample. Because of the apparent disagreement between the two data sets, we discuss how the infrared spectral line provides a uniquely direct measurement of the magnetic fields in sunspots' [ link to arxiv.org] and the Paper [ link to www.leif.org] . All bases considered is what we do,no? Quoting: Spittin'Cesium lol, 1,600 homes equates to no more than 7,000 people.
Who cares.
People down there have no where to go anyways.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22887638 When weather patterns bring snow to a region that typically doesnt ever get snow... much less 17 inches in blizzard conditions... I find it interesting... its cool you dont. thanks for the bump... Quoting: Dr. Acula Thought you might be interested in the information contained and linked to in the comment above made in another place Worth mining the links if you have the time.
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