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2017-09-07 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Early this morning (Sept. 6), the sun released two powerful solar flares ‐ the second was the most powerful in more than a decade.

At 5:10 a.m. EDT (0910 GMT), an X-class solar flare ‐ the most powerful sun-storm category ‐ blasted from a large sunspot on the sun's surface. That flare was the strongest since 2015, at X2.2, but it was dwarfed just 3 hours later, at 8:02 a.m. EDT (1202 GMT), by an X9.3 flare, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). The last X9 flare occurred in 2006 (coming in at X9.0).
According to SWPC, the flares resulted in radio blackouts: high-frequency radio experienced a "wide area of blackouts, loss of contact for up to an hour over [the] sunlit side of Earth," and low frequency communication, used in navigation, was degraded for an hour.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2017-09-07 08:29|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 I always do. Small ones are good, too.

Posted by gorb 2017-09-07 09:28|| 2017-09-07 09:28|| Front Page Top

#2 I think we need to send a man up there to see what's going on. Anyone care to second a nomination of Al Gore?

Posted by JohnQC 2017-09-07 11:09|| 2017-09-07 11:09|| Front Page Top

#3 We have had satellite communications to Alaskan villages interrupted by this activity.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-09-07 13:39|| 2017-09-07 13:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Spelling, Gorb.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-09-07 14:23|| 2017-09-07 14:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Gee, think hurricanes and solar weather are related (correlation not causality)?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-09-07 14:25|| 2017-09-07 14:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Second!! JQC

Can we find him some company for the trip?

Posted by AlanC 2017-09-07 16:44|| 2017-09-07 16:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Agreed. Deacon needs to work on his spelling.

Posted by gorb 2017-09-07 18:28|| 2017-09-07 18:28|| Front Page Top

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