Frighteningly Enormous Solar Flare Update: White House Prepares For Coronal Mass Ejection, Potential Catastrophic Space Weather Events


While many people are looking back on pivotal events of 2015 -- famous deaths, terrorism, and the horse and pony Republican presidential debates -- a disturbing solar flare report is trending again.

Recently, the White House made preparations for unpredictable and severe space weather events. And much of the clamor focuses on the possibility of a catastrophic coronal mass ejection striking Earth, citing an AOL latest news story.

According to a Newsy video report (below), an intense solar flare narrowly missed a direct hit with Earth by a matter of days in 2012. NASA said an intense CME launched towards the planet at speeds of over 6 million miles per hour.

At that speed, it would have taken the enormous flare 13 hours or so to reach our atmosphere. Consequently, the effects would have been catastrophic. As the news journalist says, it would have thrown us back to the Ice Age, so to speak, as many power grids would have been taken offline.

In October, the Obama Administration published the National Space Weather Action Plan, under the auspices of the National Science and Technology Council. The scope of the 44-page document is defined as such:

"With the objectives of improving understanding of, forecasting of, and preparedness for space-weather events (both the phenomena and their effects), the National Space Weather Strategy defines six strategic goals to prepare the Nation for near- and long-term space-weather effects."

NASA describes solar flares or coronal mass ejections as huge bursts of energy that launches materials from the sun. If the Earth's orbit takes it into the path of the solar mass; the results can be disastrous for a race highly dependent on electronic technologies.

Hey alleyoop. The CME or coronal mass ejection or solar flare fired from the sun yesterday and we should see some effects on communication starting tomorrow.

Nothing to worry about it is a level c1 or 2. A CME of 7 to 9 is something to worry about. So relax and enjoy the northern lights.
Rob the science guy

Solar Eruption Arrival Data./12/30/15: http://youtu.be/UZVodYK2RfE/
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BP Earth Watch. 60% change of geomagnetic storms on December 30th & December 31, 2015

Whew! Maybe we'll get some good DX on the ham bands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_storm/

http://www.tesis.lebedev.ru/en/forecast_activity.html/