Just thought of sending you this link. I have been following this blog as well as yours regularly (yours I only discovered a few months ago) but this is the first solar incoming that I think needs watching over the next few days till this sunspot has rotated out of the earth's view. I also liked the way you were honest with your thinking about the crazy way of Giovana & Irina is not doing badly herself. Do not know a lot about cyclones and will appreciate a article with your views regarding these storms as they seem to behaving out of the normal pattern if I follow your reporting correctly. - Deon
SAWDOS: Deon I agree that the latest sun activity must be closely observed. I already heard many say it is no big deal, it is normal during the 11 yr sun cycle period. People must not forget that we have more satellites in space, use technology more widespread then in the past and many other man made gadgets rely on info from space. Electricity grids are also vulnarable. Here is a cernario: A geomagnetic storm takes place. A CME (CMEs are gigantic bubbles of electrified gas carrying away as much as 10 billion tons of solar material.) propelled towards Earth and an X6-class solar flare is expected to reach our planet.
Generally there is no cause for alarm. When a CME hits the magnetosphere the region around Earth controlled by our planet's magnetic field, most of the incoming material is deflected away. If the shock wave is very strong, as an X6 is, it can compress the magnetosphere and unleash a geomagnetic storm. In extreme cases, such storms can induce electric currents in the Earth that can causer the damage as mentioned in the prevouis paragraph. Geomagnetic storms can also trigger beautiful aurorae. Now back to the real thing.
A CME propelled toward Earth by yesterday's X5-class solar flare is expected to reach our planet on March 8th at 0625 UT (+/- 7 hr). Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, who prepared the CME's forecast track, say the impact could spark a strong geomagnetic storm. Sky watchers at all latitudes should be alert for auroras.
Mild geomagnetic activity is already underway following a lesser CME impact on March 7th.
Source: Spaceweather.com
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