Exopermaculture.com - January 8, 2014
One of the biggest sunspots of the past decade is now directly facing Earth and has the potential to do much damage.
Jean Hudon — who is not one to get off on fear porn — sends out this information and warning to his email list. I, for one, will certainly unplug my electronics and store more water, along with already stored food. Batteries? Check. Candles? Check. Wind-up radio? Check. Know and love my neighbors? Check.
Who knows what, if anything we’re in for. We may be about to find out. Or not. Either way, it’s good to watch yourself let go, if at least briefly, of all the civilizational structures that we take for granted, and that, ultimately, as more and more of us realize, are utterly unsustainable on our beautiful, finite, nearly ruined Mother Earth planet.
From: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/2014-01-08
12:30 UTC G3 (Strong) Geomagnetic Storming Expected
SWPC Forecasters are anticipating G3 (Strong) Geomagnetic Storm conditions to occur on January 9 and 10. The source of this disturbance is a fairly fast Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME) launched from centrally-located Region 1944 at 1832 UTC (1:32 p.m. EST) on January 7. Full evaluation and modeling of this event has refined the forecast and indicates a fairly direct interaction with Earth, with the WSA-Enlil model putting arrival mid-morning UTC on January 9 (very early morning EST). In addition, the S2 (Moderate) Solar Radiation Storm associated with this event is currently near, but below, the S3 (Strong) threshold, with values leveling off at this time. At the Sun, Region 1944 remains well-placed and energetic. Updates here as this event progresses.
From : http://spaceweather.com/ (on January 8 – it changes daily…)
STORMY SPACE WEATHER: Giant sunspot AR1944 is directly facing Earth and crackling with solar flares. Yesterday, Jan. 7th, an X1-class explosion in the sunspot’s magnetic canopy hurled a CME in our direction. High-latitude sky watchers shoud be alert for auroras on Jan. 9th when the cloud is expected to arrive. NOAA forecasters estimate a 60% chance of polar geomagnetic storms. The X1-flare that hurled the CME toward Earth also accelerated a swarm of high-energy protons in our direction. Effects of the proton fusillade are visible in this Jan. 7th coronagraph moviefrom the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) The source of all this activity is AR1944, one of the biggest sunspots of the past decade. The sprawling active region is more than 200,000 km wide and contains dozens of dark cores. Its primary core, all by itself, is large enough to swallow Earth three times over. To set the scale of the behemoth, Karzaman Ahmad inserted a picture of Earth in the corner of this picture he took on Jan. 7th from the Langkawi National Observatory in Malaysia:. More flares are in the offing. The sunspot has an unstable ‘beta-gamma-delta’ magnetic field that is likely to erupt again today. NOAA forecasters estimate an 80% chance of M-class flares and a 50% chance of X-flares on Jan. 8th.
