AURORA ALERT!!!! Sat/Sun 1.1-1.2.2005

[exitwound]

This unusual figure-eight sunspot pattern, with very intensely twisted magnetic field loops:

http://www.spaceweather.com/images2004/31dec04/Eskildsen1.jpg

....has produced an X-2 class solar flare (Coronal Mass Ejection - CME) which is headed in the general direction of Earth.

Check out the polar aurora satellite displays: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/pmap/

Keep an eye on the skies late tonight and tomorrow night!

[Ono]

What can we expect to see and what will this do, if anything to the earth.....communications etc.?

That's some picture!

[Funky Monkey]

if you look at the latest POES images the aurora oval is very off-center and the radians dont line up which means were already getting twisted magnetic fields coming in :shock:

eyes on the sky in monkeyville! :shock:

[Master Chief]

So wierd earthquakes, volcanoes erupting, planets in alignment tugging on earth, and now wierd sunspots o.O? Sounds like the end of the world 'ta me!

[cranius]

So wierd earthquakes, volcanoes erupting, planets in alignment tugging on earth, and now wierd sunspots o.O? Sounds like the end of the world 'ta me!

yup....look at the sky!!! :shock: :shock: :shock:

[GBA]

Solar storms could disrupt mobile telephones, television: scientists


LONDON (AFP) - The largest emission of radiation by the sun in 15 years could disrupt mobile telephone communications as well as television and radio reception, scientists said.

Large solar flares were unleashed when energy stored in magnetic fields above sunspots was suddenly released, according to the scientists at Britain's Royal Astronomical Society.

The effects of the solar flares were seen at different points on earth, including brilliant auroras over parts of Britain on Friday night.

"Flares can affect short-wave communications and satellites in the earth's orbit which could mean problems for phones, television and radio signals," said Peter Bond, spokesman for the Royal Astronomical Society.

"The flares have caused a huge amount of geo-magnetic activity as the magnetic field takes a while to settle," he said.

It was the largest radiation storm since October 1989, according to experts.