Major Magnetic Storm on Sun to ‘Bombard’ Earth on Saturday, Scientists Warn by Sputnik October 29th 2021, 1:09 pm

[Hodrod]

Major Magnetic Storm on Sun to ‘Bombard’ Earth on Saturday, Scientists Warn


The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Centre issued a geomagnetic storm warning on Friday in the wake of a powerful Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) event on Thursday, which released clouds of supercharged solar particles into space in the direction of Earth.
Major Magnetic Storm on Sun to ‘Bombard’ Earth on Saturday, Scientists Warn


Thursday’s massive X-class flare eruption on the Sun is expected to reach Earth on Saturday, and could wreak havoc on a range of manmade solar radiation-sensitive devices, the X-Ray Astronomy of the Sun Lab at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics has warned.

“One of the largest and perhaps the largest burst of solar activity in recent years is currently taking place on our Sun. Over the past day, fourteen flares, including two M-class flares (strong) and one maximum X-class flare (especially strong) have been recorded,” the Lab said in a statement on Friday

 

[Hodrod]

Might be time to put your essential electronics into a faraday cage just in case....


“To demonstrate the extraordinary nature of what’s taken place, it can be noted that over the past four years, since 2018, only two X-class flares, including Thursday’s, have been recorded. All other events were of a lesser magnitude,” scientists indicated.
Major Magnetic Storm on Sun to ‘Bombard’ Earth on Saturday,
“The main blow to the Earth will come when plasma clouds containing the main kinetic energy of a solar explosion reach it. It is expected that the first contact of Earth’s magnetic field with plasma…will occur at about 10 am Moscow time on 30 October [about 7 am GMT, or 3 am EST],” the lab estimates.

 

[KOPBET]

It's that damn Trump's fault.

 

[cowadle]

i saw that event on the ips flare alert. i wonder if we are headed to another solar maximum?

 

[Hodrod]

i saw that event on the ips flare alert. i wonder if we are headed to another solar maximum?

I think we're currently in a solar minimum which makes this odd......but I could be wrong about that

 

[cowadle]

I think we're currently in a solar minimum which makes this odd......but I could be wrong about that

yes i have been getting flare alerts for over decade i think. our solar minimum is getting pretty old. i haven't seen any flare alerts for a long time but since this spring there have been several small ones and then thursday was a big one. seems early to tell but it looks like the sun is ramping up.

 

[Catt57]

Scientists expect the plasma clouds to hit the atmosphere at about 800 km per second, with its impact “launching large magnetic storms on a planetary scale,” and Earth affected by the bombardment for about one-and-a-half to two days, “during which time it will probably experience almost continuous geomagnetic disturbances of varying intensity.

AKA - GPS devices could be a bit wonky for a couple of days...

 

[chuter]

Just a cover story for the test EMP they'll be using on red states.....

 

[Perplexed]

No wonder my drone flying app says tomorrow will be iffy - due to “possible issues with GPS.”

 

[HFS]

It's that damn Trump's fault.

No, it's Bush's fault!