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Hmmmm dum dee hmm hmm whistle, whistle, peep.Comment added at 15:26 UTC on January 27: A solar wind shock was observed at 14:00 UTC with an abrupt increase in solar wind speed from 340 to 370 km/sec. Just afterwards solar wind density increased to extremely high levels approaching 100 particles/cm3. The interplanetary magnetic field has strengthened a lot and swung strongly southwards. This could result in major storming later on today.
""Solar Warning Site"" Link
Oh nouice..shhhhh...{|}.peek... quiet...shhh! peek.....under here..
Some more too......
No wonder I got a stiff neck.
Enjoy, I have. (*^}`X::
-- Michael (mikeymac@uswest.net), January 27, 2000
What a lot of new stuff to learn! I clicked on 4 randomly selected sites and absorbed some information. One place said that electric could be affected in higher lattitudes. What constitutes "higher lattitudes?" I Knew that the sun was a concern in 2000 but I don't know why. What am I looking for in all this wonderfully detailed, charted, color graphics that move? And the real nitty gritty: How will this affect my corner of rural Pennsylvania?
-- Pam (jpjgood@penn.com), January 27, 2000.
How about a few sentences in English telling us why we should worry about this????
-- Sally Strackbein (sally@y2kkitchen.com), January 27, 2000.
Thx. for all those neat links, Michael. Man, when ole Sol passes wind we all better duck (quack!).
-- Phew! (BetterDuck@Quck.com), January 27, 2000.
When will it hit? Should I cover the solar panels on my RV to protect them?
-- Earl (earl.shuholm@worldnet.att.net), January 27, 2000.
Same thing happened in 1986 (unless I'm mistaken).So I plan to do the same thing I did then.
Not fly. that's about all.
It sure is easy to be a Polly when you have a bunch of xtra food & water and backup power and heat......;^)
-- plonk! (realaddress@hotmail.com), January 27, 2000.
I wondered why no one was.... oops oh ya shhhhhhhh!wink wink
Ahem.
WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?
I thought I was going to have to post it myself uummmm 2 or 3 days ago.... are all your emergency posts so slow? Comets? I mean Comments? err I mean
WHAT HELL WAS THAT?
-- Alaric (Strick9@netcom.ca), January 27, 2000.
michael,great stuff but i have to add one more link that is my fave...sorry, link inhibited, have to cut & paste:
http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/orbit.html
keep and increase those preps...
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mike
-- mike (mike@knuckledragger.com), January 27, 2000.
Coronal holes are very common... this particular one rotates back on a regular basis.. southward swing causes effects to be felt more... mostly to rado operators.Actually, solar activity at the moment is really pretty ho-hummm...
Now, if you see an x5 or above flare with a full coronal mass ejection in geoeffective position... find a cave..
-- Carl (clilly@goentre.com), January 27, 2000.
Link for Mike. Major find, bookmarked! (Bandwidth Hog site alert...)
-- Possible Impact (posim@hotmail.com), January 28, 2000.
dang! I thought this thread was gonna be about "SOL" fer sollitare ;-) Cool - I can "stand down now".rofl
-- farf (madeupguy@hotmail.com), January 28, 2000.
The link is dead, but in October the DOD was reported to be /bracing\ for Solar Max, and numerous stories have been written connecting power failure in Canada's grid to sun maelstrom. Satellite communication has also been affected in the past. So, it's not so much of a worry, as it is an anomaly I like to watch for. Always learning something new. But don't say you haven't been warned (warmed). i.e.
linkI have visited the link before mike, and it's fun, but the most interesting section within the fiction laden adventures, is the ELFRAD group. They monitor Mother Terra for her pulse so to speak and compare unusual frequency readings with events such as earthquakes, nuclear tests, volcanic eruptions, and some things I can't fathom, but the concept is neat. Ya never know, ya know. (?Accidental nuke?) Oh BTW, I've never heard of a coronal hole being predictable. While they do last long enough to rotate in and out and in again to the visible disk, unless I'm mistaken, they form, exist and perish just as a storm does. They don't exist as a permanent fixture of the surface. And while there is nothing exceptional (yet) I've been watching the recurrence of wave form and the two particularly prominent spikes this past 10 months (see Solar dxl ) have seemed to follow something of a pattern. I would certainly not suppose to predict anything, but the "fight or flight" syndrome does tend to kick in when the confluence of two or more of the indicators act out of calmon (sic). As if anything that happens on or in the sun can be construed as calm. I really like YPOP because like they say, you may be the first to see something kewl.
-- Michael (mikeymac@uswest.net), January 28, 2000.
It doesn't surprise me that spectacular coronal holes are linked with mass ejection...
-- ImSo (lame@prepped.com), January 28, 2000.
Imso, I think your analogy is off.....I don't think the ejection will put out the fire. Two separate bodies involved in your analogy.
-- Kyle (fordtbonly@aol.com), January 28, 2000.
Given the time involved for solar particles to reach Earth, won't they arrive from this event and be affecting the Earth's magnetosphere, and ultimately things like power grids, just in time for this weekend's winter storm to be striking the East Coast?It couldn't have been intentionally timed much better.
WW
-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), January 28, 2000.