An immense blast of plasma spewed late Sunday night from the sun led to the strongest radiation storm bombarding our planet since 2005, and a rare warning from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency — and even a plan to redirect certain high-flying airplanes.
NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center — the nation’s official source of warnings about space weather and its impact on Earth — issued a watch for a geomagnetic storm expected to hit our planet Tuesday morning after a satellite witnessed an ultraviolet flash from the massive solar eruption, according to Spaceweather.com.(Huge Solar Eruption Sparks Strongest Radiation Storm in 7 Years)
There is no risk to people on Earth, Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center told FoxNews.com.
But as a rare precaution, polar flights on Earth are expected to be re-routed, Kathy Sullivan, deputy administrator of NOAA, said today at a Meteorological Society meeting in New Orleans, La., according to Space.com.
Eruptions on the sun shoot tremendous streams of charged particles away from the star — in this case directly towards us.
“There is little doubt that the cloud is heading in the general direction of Earth,” Spaceweather.com announced in an alert. The blast from the immense solar radiation storm let loose with a so called coronal mass ejection (CME) that will hit the atmosphere Tuesday morning, something NASA and NOAA monitor for as it could cause problems for astronauts, communications satellites, and even rocket launches.
“A preliminary inspection of SOHO/STEREO imagery suggests that the CME will deliver a strong glancing blow to Earth’s magnetic field on Jan. 24-25 as it sails mostly north of our planet,” SpaceWeather’s bulletin read.
It could also affect navigation and the power grid.
~ With all the news posted lately here @ JUST Piper on the CME/Solar Flares etc., my natural suspicious mind concerning our government and how they hide everything from us is kicking into high gear. Grandpa always said when something goes up, it will effect our weather pattern, He said that over FIFTY years ago, but look at the weather/earthquakes JUST in the past few days posted here. Japan had a shaker. Alabama has never seen a January tornado on the groun for two hours. Especially since the path it took was almost ‘aligned’ with April 27th, 2011. ~ JP
JUST Yesterday: CME Impact hit Earth’s magnetic field
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