Solar Storm Headed Toward Earth May Disrupt Power

 
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So....

It is not the first time it happens, and not the most severe one either. Nothing serious that really affect our daily life before. Neither will this one.

So

cameotabby wrote:

It is not the first time it happens, and not the most severe one either. Nothing serious that really affect our daily life before. Neither will this one.

So if you are not interested then don't look. I posted this for those interested.

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Nuvi 2460LMT

HF Bands

Yesterday and today the HF communications bands are pretty near unusable. Today at least from my location is worse than yesterday.

possibly but i hope not.

It's will affect cell phone coverage more as they rely on the one signal rather than like GPS that relies on several signals. I remember back when I had the Motorola Brick phone and every time the sun hickupped the phones when dead for 10 minutes here and 15 minutes there. I have seen worse days it's just this one was one big spike
You can follow it at the official site:

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

They say this every time there's a solar flare

http://www.spaceweather.com/

GEOMAGNETIC STORM UPDATE: A CME propelled toward Earth by this morning'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-to-severe geomagnetic storm. Sky watchers at all latitudes should be alert for auroras. Aurora alerts: text, phone.

Hopefully there will be clear skies for some aurora watching.

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Dang...

...that explains how I ended up in Rancho Cucamonga (California) yesterday when I was trying to get to Poughkeepsie (New York). wink I KNEW I shoulda hung a left coming out of that gas station but that sadist Jill insisted I go right.

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JMoo On

interference

I wonder if it will interfere with auto compasses too.

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Watch and Clocks -

"Radio Controlled" watch and clock didn't synchronize last night. Guess I won't know what time it is for at least 24 hours. NOT !

This kind of stuff happens all the time, just not as big as this one. Should clear up in a day or two. Hope so - got a plane flight coming up this week end.

another...

Y2K???

Two-hour blackout of high frequency radio communications

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Nuvi 2460LMT

from your link

mmullins98 wrote:

Update:

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpps/news/solar-storm-shakes-earth-magnetic-field-dpgapx-20120309-fc_18451895

Quote:

But when the storm finally arrived around 6 a.m. EST Thursday, after traveling at 2.7 million mph, it was more a magnetic breeze than a gale. The power stayed on. So did GPS and satellites. And the promise of auroras seemed to be more of a mirage.

LOL

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Solar Slow Down

All my Words with Friends games slowed down yesterday! wink

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blah

Well, not normally....
there WAS that sattelite outage back in the late 90s....97 i think? took out damn near every pager in the country, and a lot of cell phones too...not saying THIS one is gonna be that bad, but some federal agency did warn that GPSs might be "less accurate" for a few days....

searching for satlelites

Even tho I had used my Garmin 3 days ago, it took it noticably longer to find the satellites yesterday.

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Unless you are the lead sled dog, the view never changes. I is retard... every day is Saturday! I still use the Garmin 3590 LMT even tho I upgraded to the Garmin 61 LMT. Bigger screen is not always better in my opinion.

amateur radio

if your a ham and operate on 6 meters and above the conditions should be fantastic, ten should be good also.

Skip?

Is that what you mean by fantastic? I remember in the CB days that when skip came in we could not talk across town, but could talk to Hawaii

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pretty much

spokybob wrote:

Is that what you mean by fantastic? I remember in the CB days that when skip came in we could not talk across town, but could talk to Hawaii

the same different layer.

Another One

Well there is another one on its way expected sometime on Monday. I doubt it will be anything spectacular. While it would be terrible for technology, I would not mind witnessing another "Carrington Event". The auroras from that episode sound absolutely stunning.

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GPSr affected by solar storm?

I wonder if that had anything to do with the lost of the map yesterday while navigating to Milpitas, Ca. My 2460 was navigating fine for an hour until 6pm, then the info was suddenly lost and I could not get it to continue navigating by re-entering the route.

Do Ya Think

it's the cause of gas prices gone up 15 cents this week?

Always

I have never personally witnessed any electrical malfunctions due to solar energy after a warning has been issued. I always look for an aurora, but have yet to see one. I found this site this week for an aurora forecast, pretty neat. http://helios.swpc.noaa.gov/ovation/

Coincidence or not

A friend was out in his boat on Friday and his GPS just lost the signal and the screen started to pixlate then went blank. (it is fairly new)
Might just be a coincidence.

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Solar storms do not cause

Solar storms do not cause pixelating screens.

And, as usual, the forecasters got it wrong, even with the direct observation. Then again, they got the weather forecast for today, issued at 6 AM this morning wrong for here as well.

The storm was a very minor one - and if they can't figure that out, one has to wonder just how some of them can be so certain about such things as global warming?

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Rare thing

I only saw one once for about 10 minutes, about 20 years ago, but remember it well as being absolutely stunning. So many things have to line up right in terms of the aurora conditions themselves, which only rarely get down to my neck of the woods, me being awake, the sky being clear but dark (which it wasn't this weekend, with the full moon). We have lots of ambient light in the northern Chicago suburbs anyway. I'd like to see one again though, but not enough to travel much farther north in the winter.

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