ALERT ALERT !!!!!!! X Flare shock waves to start hitting us today at 9:00 UT

This could also cause EQ's

Should i bring my horses in?

Do you "know enough about science" to know the X-Rays from the flare only take 8Min to arrive.

The "wave" you are talking about is from the CME's associated with the flares, but they are indeed separate events.

Not all flares cause CME's and CME can happen without flares. Our Sun is a beautiful creature.


Anyway still gonna be some cool geomagnetic storms this week's

Last Edited by Doommincus Maximus on 05/15/2013 03:18 AM

looks like i am going back to desert after my work, not staying in city tonight

Too bad they weren't earth facing. Just imagine 4 X-class CME's hitting earth dead on. Wow

Last Edited by Bomb Cyclone on 05/15/2013 03:20 AM

Well that what us Suntards have been waiting for.

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Maybe that's the cause of the strange sky sounds in NC tonight.

Thread: Strange noises in the sky right now over NC

Shields going down.

They will arrive today according to NASA and they know science.

Might still happen that thing is turning to face us and she might be packing a six gun two to go

At long last

Saddle em up you might need them as transport tomorrow

Not a thing to worry about. Ive watched many a CME and flare aimed at us. if anything get to a spot where you might see the aurora:D

I'm in Northern California

I just checked SOHO movie maker to view the X Flare was there two in rapid Succession ???? go check it out

Yes the CME's will arrive today, not the flares they travel at the speed of light because its light(X-Ray).

Earthquakes maybe, volcano activity.

Yes..just a couple of our favourite DOOMS would liven things up a bit.

Its been so dull latley.

BRING ON THE DOOM!

So, it had been on for 15 minutes now.

What sort of damage would that do, Geo? I really don't understand the flare classification index and what it means in terms of effects.

are my tomatoes safe?

Nothing is going to happen when they were not directed at earth. We have large CMEs hit us directly all the time and NOTHING compared to some crappy side stream of cme.

Probably damage to satellites and astronauts. For here, GPS/navigation errors, possible TEMPORARY power grid failures and Aurora possible at very low latitudes. Might be more, but got this at the tip of my head.

Nothing Would Happen eve if all of these flares were earth directed.

In modern times, the largest solar flare measured with instruments occurred on November 4, 2003. This event saturated the GOES detectors, and because of this its classification is only approximate. Initially, extrapolating the GOES curve, it was estimated to be X28.[18] Later analysis of the ionospheric effects suggested increasing this estimate to X45.[19] This event produced the first clear evidence of a new spectral component above 100 GHz.[20]
Other large solar flares also occurred on April 2, 2001 (X20),[21] October 28, 2003 (X17.2 and 10),[22] September 7, 2005 (X17),[21] February 17, 2011 (X2),[23][24][25] August 9, 2011 (X6.9),[9][26] March 7, 2012 (X5.4),[27][28] July 6, 2012 (X1.1).[29] July 6, 2012- The solar storm hit just after 12 midnight UK time,[30] when an X1.1 solar flare fired out of the AR1515 sunspot. Another X1.4 solar flare from AR 1520 region of the Sun,[31] second in the week, reached the earth on July 15, 2012[32] with a geomagnetic storm of G1–G2 level.[33][34] A X1.8-class flare was recorded on October 24, 2012.[35] There was a major solar flare on Mothers day 2013 that was the largest of the year.[36]

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Not if its a Carrinton event, that event was seen with the naked eye, now that puts it weeellll above X45

"The most powerful flare ever observed was the first one to be observed,[14] on September 1, 1859, and was reported by British astronomer Richard Carrington and independently by an observer named Richard Hodgson. The event is named the Solar storm of 1859, or the "Carrington event". The flare was visible to a naked-eye (in white light), and produced stunning auroras down to tropical latitudes such as Cuba or Hawaii, and set telegraph systems on fire.[15] The flare left a trace in Greenland ice in the form of nitrates and beryllium-10, which allow its strength to be measured today.[16] Cliver and Svalgaard [17] reconstructed the effects of this flare and compared with other events of the last 150 years. In their words: While the 1859 event has close rivals or superiors in each of the above categories of space weather activity, it is the only documented event of the last ∼150 years that appears at or near the top of all of the lists."