Today a very DANGEROUS CME Has left the sun and is headed on a path directly for earth.
This X-Class Flare which is on a path DIRECTLY Toward Earth may be of a greater magnitude than indicated by the space based solar monitoring equipment.
The monitoring equipment may in fact be somewhat UNDER ESTIMATING the severity of the X-1 solar flare due to previous solar storms causing damage to the space based monitoring equipment. Some solar watchers believe a couple of previous solar bursts have negatively affected the sensors and caused the equipment to be under estimating the size of ALL subsequent solar bursts of energy. ... Morpheus July 12 2012
This Solar Burst Will Directly affect the East Coast of the United States
At the very least we can expect an increase in Earthquake activity, an increase in general wind storms, an increase in rain and thunder storm activity and some electric power grid anomalies. A worst case would be severe conditions stated above with a complete loss of the power grid system. Also; it may be a very wise move to store your personal electronic devises in a well grounded metal enclosure or grounded metal cabinet to protect the vulnerable electronic circuitry from induced overload failure. ... Morpheus
NASA Arrival Estimate:
Event Issue Date: 2012-07-12 13:37:29.0 GMT
CME Arrival Time: 2012-07-14 10:20:38.0 GMT
Arival Time Confidence Level: ± 6 hours
Disturbance Duration: 8 hours
Disturbance Duration Confidence Level: ± 8 hours
Magnetopause Standoff Distance: 4.6 Re
CME Arrival Time: 2012-07-14 10:20:38.0 GMT
Arival Time Confidence Level: ± 6 hours
Disturbance Duration: 8 hours
Disturbance Duration Confidence Level: ± 8 hours
Magnetopause Standoff Distance: 4.6 Re
Sat, 14 Jul 2012 10:20:38 GMT
WSA Enlil Solar Wind Prediction = Saturday 4:20 PM Eastern Time
X-FLARE!
Big sunspot AR1520 unleashed an
X1.4-class solar flare on July 12th. Because the
sunspot is directly facing Earth, everything about
the blast was geoeffective. For one thing, it hurled
a coronal mass ejection (CME) directly toward our
planet. According to a forecast
track prepared by analysts at the Goddard Space
Weather Lab, the CME will hit Earth on July 14th
around 10:20 UT (+/- 7 hours) and could spark strong
geomagnetic storms. Sky watchers should be alert
for auroras this weekend. Geomagnetic
storm alerts: text,
voice.
The explosion also strobed Earth with
a pulse of extreme UV radiation, shown here in a
movie recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:
The UV pulse partially ionized Earth's
upper atmosphere, disturbing the normal propagation
of radio signals around the planet. Monitoring stations
in Norway,
Ireland and Italy
recorded the sudden ionospheric disturbance.
Finally, solar protons accelerated
by the blast are swarming around Earth. The radiation
storm, in
progress, ranks "S1" on NOAA space
weather scales, which means it poses no serious
threat to satellites or astronauts. This could change
if the storm continues to intensify. Stay tuned.
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