Tag Archives: Geomagnetic storm

“firecracker” sunspot turning towards earth – possible large solar flares

Posted on May 8, 2012 by

Sunspot AR1476 may have some surprises for us in the coming days, and I hope it isn’t a Carrington type event. It has already launched two CME’s yesterday. From NASA’s Spaceweather.com: A pair of solar eruptions on May 7th hurled coronal … Continue reading →

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Potential for large solar flares and CME’s may be with us again soon

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

Readers may recall my reports on the CME’s from massive sunspot group 1429, seen below. It seems the sunspot group continues to live, and has unleashed another massive Coronal Mass Ejection. It will rotate into Earth view again soon.

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Solar storm continues, geomagnetic storm and auroras expected

Posted on March 7, 2012 by

We have about three hours to go for the expected arrival time of the CME at 0625 UTC/1025 PM PST. Proton flux remains high as do other indicators. Additionally another C class solar flare just occured. This bulletin just in … Continue reading →

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NOAA: Strong Solar Eruption; Earth-Directed CME Likely

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

An X-5 class solar flare just occurred from region 1429, the large active sunspot group seen below. NOAA Bulletin from the Space Weather Prediction Center: 2012-03-07 01:03   Strong Solar Eruption; Earth-Directed CME Likely

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Homeland Security takes on The Carrington Event

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

While we worry about future threats like global warming, and present threats like Iran’s escalating nuclear program, the sun’s propensity for belching out monstrous solar flares (like the Carrington event of 1859) could almost instantly create a world without modern … Continue reading →

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Biggest solar storm since 2005

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

It is being called by WaPo “The Biggest solar storm since 2005“. The sun erupted late on January 22nd, 2012 with an M8.7 class flare. The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the flare as seen below. From NASA: The coronal mass … Continue reading →

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Big CME headed toward Earth

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

From Spaceweather.com : Active sunspot 1401 erupted yesterday, Jan. 19th around 16:30 UT, producing an M3-class solar flare and a full-halo coronal mass ejection (CME). The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the cloud expanding almost directly toward Earth:

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Big CME hits earth, low latitude auroras possible

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

From the Rice University Spaceweather listserv Our space weather alert system is in level yellow, and the CME input of energy to the Earth’s magnetosphere still continues. So, if you live in northern latitudes, go out and look for auroras … Continue reading →

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Geomagnetic solar storm in progress

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

Spaceweather.com reports: A strong-to-severe geomagnetic storm is in progress following the impact of a coronal mass ejection (CME) at approximately 12:15 UT on Sept. 26th.

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Power grid cut worries flaring over solar flares

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

This is quite alarming, but as Dr. Leif Svalgaard explained in his email tip to me, “…in this case, probably justified”. Here’s the story from the Independent:

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