The SUN is getting active with "Solar Flares"

[Sourdough]

Space Weather News for Jan. 9, 2023 https://spaceweather.com https://www.spaceweatheralerts.com ANOTHER X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE: Earth-orbiting satellites detected another X-class solar flare today--the second in less than a week and a possible harbinger of more to come. There are now two large, unstable sunspots capable of producing these strong explosions, and both are turning toward Earth. Full story and forecasts @ Spaceweather.com Instant X-flare alerts: Sign up for Space Weather Alerts to receive instant text messages when strong solar flares are underway.

Above: An X1.9-class solar flare on Jan. 9, 2023, recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

 

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[Buffalo]

It's happened before and it will happen again. None of us were here for the Carrington Event in 1859, but I am sure a lot of us were around when a couple of X class flares and their associated CMEs hit the earth in 1989. I was only a kid, but I remember going out with my dad to see the northern lights at our house in central Kansas. They were a touch farther south than they usually go. Parts of Canada lost power as well as the CME caused circuit breakers to blow at a couple of hydroelectric dams there.

 

[Hooch]

I'm a avid solar weather watcher..the first time I saw the northern lights I didnt realize what it was because it was a red glow over the ocean down where I was in cali. I looked it up the next morning and I've been hooked since. That was a big CME ejection back in the early 2000 's or late 90's.
Any kind of space science I can geek out in tho..

 

[montanabill]

There have been more than a few near misses from major solar flares......some as large as the carrington event with it's flaming telegraph offices.
The world is certainly a interesting place.

 

[Magus]

https://www.earth.com/news/alert-st...ecorded-will-soon-cause-disruptions-on-earth/
Duck n cover!

 

[montanabill]

https://www.earth.com/news/alert-st...ecorded-will-soon-cause-disruptions-on-earth/
Duck n cover!

 

[Canon29]

Pretty wild to think about- imagine you see the northern lights, and all the modern stuff goes dead. some mystic **** right there... I wonder what kind of feeling one might associate with the sight of those lights in the days following that kind of collapse. Would it be one of Wonder? Reverance? Fear? Regret?

Got me thinkin...

 

[Magus]

Depends on how far we fall. If it's more than a glitch, probably hate.

 

[Magus]

Well, it seems to have started, the phone service is getting crappy and the net is slow.

 

[bkt]

Pretty wild to think about- imagine you see the northern lights, and all the modern stuff goes dead. some mystic **** right there... I wonder what kind of feeling one might associate with the sight of those lights in the days following that kind of collapse. Would it be one of Wonder? Reverance? Fear? Regret?

Got me thinkin...

I'd be jumping up and down clapping my hands like an idiot and yelling "YAAAAY! FRY THAT GRID AND KEEP IT DOWN!"

That's just me....

 

[viking]

I'm a avid solar weather watcher..the first time I saw the northern lights I didnt realize what it was because it was a red glow over the ocean down where I was in cali. I looked it up the next morning and I've been hooked since. That was a big CME ejection back in the early 2000 's or late 90's.
Any kind of space science I can geek out in tho..

Around 1956 to 1958 when I was living near Bremerton, Washington we had spectacular northern lights, we could see the tops of the Olympic mountain range and it looked like the whole range was on fire with blue colored lights, then one warm summer day the whole sky to the west of us was green and while everyone was out on their lawns watching the sky it suddenly turned into a huge red circular spot, so quickly one would have thought that you should have heard an explosion, looking back to that time there must have been some major solar activity. Many years later when I moved to Seattle a friend and I went hiking in the Cascades to go fishing at a lake and after we got our camp set up and it was getting dark my friend asked me what town was to the east of us that was lighting up the sky, I told him it wasn't from a town, he had never seen northern lights. I've yet to seen northern lights down here in S.W. Oregon but I'm sure those days are coming due to this solar cycle being exceptionally robust, more than likely the lights have shown up but it's just been too cloudy. SOHO, www.soho.nascom.nasa.org is a site I've gone to for many years, lots of good info, videos and pics.

 

[Lolly]

Going into a solar maximum with the earth's magnetic field weakening more and more each year, I am sure we will all be seeing the northern lights soon. Even though we have taken many X class CMEs over the recorded years, that Carrington X class flare had to battle our strong magnetic field. It is very probable that a lesser flare will have some catastrophic results. Be prepared to put out fires and kick it old school.

 

[Magus]

I'd be jumping up and down clapping my hands like an idiot and yelling "YAAAAY! FRY THAT GRID AND KEEP IT DOWN!"

That's just me....

We could do with a bit of a rewind. the internet is like a hooker at a frat party, it spreads disease and hooks up creeps.

 

[Magpie]

https://www.bbc.com/weather/features/67769934
Polar Stratospheric Cloud over the UK & Scotland yesterday

 

[lonewolf]

warnings were given for over here but nothing happened.

 

[Magus]

The phones and net have been hiccuping for three days here. nothing major.