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NASA Warns of Magnetic Storm After Huge Solar Flare
coondoggie writes "NASA today said a strong-to-severe geomagnetic storm is in progress following a massive solar flare and coronal mass ejection (CME). CMEs are a solar phenomenon that can send solar particles into space and affect electronic systems in satellites and on Earth. Simulations indicate that solar wind plasma has penetrated close to geosynchronous orbit starting at 9am today. Geosynchronous satellites could therefore be directly exposed to solar wind plasma and magnetic fields. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras after nightfall, NASA stated."
Spaceweather.com is reporting this as subsiding....
SUBSIDING STORM: A severe geomagnetic storm (Kp=7-8) that began yesterday when a CME hit Earth's magnetic field is subsiding. At the peak of the disturbance, auroras were sighted around both poles and in more than five US states including Michigan, New York, South Dakota, Maine, and Minnesota:
Good thing they discovered superluminal neutrinos last week because you'll need a time machine.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
The storm had already passed by the time this article was posted.
This is something that should have been posted on Sunday.
I got this shot of an aurora over Karlstad, Sweden last night http://i.imgur.com/fnbS4.jpg
Wow, someone sounds like a typical american, can't tell one side of the world from the other (New Zealand is about as far from Europe as you can get, i.e. opposite side of the planet).