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Space Weather Warning
SallyMac writes "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a Space Weather Warning. On Friday, May 13th, NOAA detected a 'geomagnetic storm of extreme proportions'. From the article: 'This event registered a 9 on the K-Index, which measures the maximum deviation of the Earth's magnetic field in a given three-hour period...The scale ranges from 0 to 9, with 9 being the highest. This was a significant event.' See the article on the NOAA site for more information." Spaceweather.com has details on the resulting auroras.
Why couldn't they use a scale of 1 to 10 like EVERYBODY ELSE?
I _would_ have taken the freeway home on friday had I known, but instead I got caught in this horrible weather while traveling through the upper atmosphere.
Way to have 20/20 hindsight NOAA.
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"This event registered a 9 on the K-Index, which measures the maximum deviation of the Earth's magnetic field in a given three-hour period...The scale ranges from 0 to 9, with 9 being the highest. This was a significant event.'"
Alright everybody DUCK AND COVER!
Two days ago something happened that could have caused some major problems. It didn't. Oh and be sure to catch the auroras yesterday. They sure were great. Thanks for the heads up ;)
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...i want to be sure i have this right, on a scale that ranges from 0-9, 9 is the 'highest'? fascinating.
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In other news, a black cat was spotted walking underneath an open ladder carrying a salt shaker. This so startled the man on the ladder that he dropped the mirror he was holding, shattering the mirror, and crushing the cat.
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is always alot more accurate once it has occured already. thanks slashdot for making sure we get the weather a few days after it has occured
They have pictures from California, South Dakota, Kansas and Illinois.
"Around the world", eh? Spoken like a true American.
In other news, a black cat was spotted walking underneath an open ladder carrying a salt shaker. This so startled the man on the ladder that he dropped the mirror he was holding, shattering the mirror, and crushing the cat.
In sympathy, the sun let out a massive geomagnetic storm.
Just to be safe, I'd keep your little man away from it.
You've unconvered the great cover up. George Bush and Congelisa Rice have told Chaney to get his pals at Haliburton to create this really, really, top secret Giant Magnetic Device that will fry everyone's brain in the Blue States to clear the way for a Red State migration. The only protection against this new terrible weapon is to wear tin foil under your hat, or if you can find one, a fine holed, metal colander. If the holes are too large then the micro sized Federal agents riding on the magnetic pulses will be able to get through to whisper evil thoughts in your ear and plant tiny alien creatures from Area 52 that will eat your brain. Since you are the one who made this discovery and was foolish enough to post it on the Internet, expect black helicoptors to find you.... Oh no. It's too late. They have you in their sights. Run, run. Run like the wind and don't look back.
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" They have pictures from California, South Dakota, Kansas and Illinois. "
'"Around the world", eh? Spoken like a true American.'
You have to cut them a little slack. From where they stand, California and Kansas look like different planets. 8^)
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Boy, good thing I was rockin' the tinfoil chapeau on Friday...
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By definition total destruction is the maximum devistation I would of thought possible in a 3 hour period, ergo, I should invest in new Sun Block 4000 (warning: frequent use may cause skin cancer)
Also in answer to a question way up the top having a scale of 0-9 does have 10 increments(0's a number too!) and also takes less memory to store;-)
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Actually the US does represent a fairly significant slice of the globe in both lattitude and longitude. Also when someone asks what's happening around the world it's pretty difficult to report on more than that with which one is familiar ... typically one would rely on someone in another true part of the world to report on what they know, to get the whole picture.
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
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There, that's more than 10 things counted with a single digit.
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