The Sun just farted.

[ZenOps]

Solar flare warning... Haven't heard of one of significance for at least a decade now:

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Video comes complete with psychodelic music.

[Type_S1]

haha that is a pretty sweet video.

[Hakkola]

There's a thread about this already, but I can't find it, hopefully a mod merges.

The moon is pink right now.

[ZenOps]

Early predictions estimate that the CME will reach Earth tomorrow (March 8) at 7 a.m. EST (1200 GMT), with the effects likely lasting for 24 hours, and possibly lingering into Friday, Kunches said

This one appears big enough to make it possible to see daylight northern lights starting tomorrow morning. I'd put my tinfoil hat on by the time the sun rises tomorrow.

Luckily for the Earth, it is not going to hit us directly.

[jutes]

Still waiting for the "knowing" style solar flare to wipe life off this miserable little planet.

[sputnik]

Originally posted by ZenOps
Early predictions estimate that the CME will reach Earth tomorrow (March 8) at 7 a.m. EST (1200 GMT), with the effects likely lasting for 24 hours, and possibly lingering into Friday, Kunches said

This one appears big enough to make it possible to see daylight northern lights starting tomorrow morning. I'd put my tinfoil hat on by the time the sun rises tomorrow.

Luckily for the Earth, it is not going to hit us directly.

Yeah.

So about that...

[clem24]

Rob Anders will probably sleep through this one too.

[clem24]

So.. Anyone see anything? I saw nothing. :(

[Tik-Tok]

Originally posted by clem24
So.. Anyone see anything? I saw nothing. :(

I saw a zombie last night... it may have been unrelated to the solar flare.

[Isaiah]

Originally posted by Tik-Tok


I saw a zombie last night... it may have been unrelated to the solar flare.
Zombies, like animals, are sensitive to changes in atmospheric pressure. Depending on when you saw it and the direction it was heading, there may be a tsunami coming.

[Supa Dexta]

It has been shitty for magnetics. A bunch of rigs had to stop drilling at different times... We've seen 6* swings in declination in 10 minute periods.:nut:

[403_Calgary]

Originally posted by Tik-Tok


I saw a zombie last night... it may have been unrelated to the solar flare.

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[Supa Dexta]

In for another stormy night

http://www.spaceweather.ca/current-actuelle/regional/sr-1-eng.php?region=mea&mapname=northernprairies

And worse again tomorrow night.

- A solar flare is a sudden brightening observed over the Sun surface or the solar limb, which is interpreted as a large energy release of up to 6 × 1025 joules of energy[1] (about a sixth of the total energy output of the Sun each second) or 160,000,000,000 megatons of TNT equivalent, over 25,000 times more energy released from the impact of Comet_Shoemaker–Levy_9 with Jupiter.

[ZenOps]

We will survive this storm.

Its at a latitude that is not in direct lineup with the Earth. IE: From our visual perspective, it would have to be smack in the middle of the sun to do earthshattering damage.

Still, the Gamma bursts should technically only take 8 minutes from the time of an eruption.

Calgary is always a little bit dangerous for these things as we are at a much higher altitude, and do not have the few extra thousand feet of atmosphere and moisture to absorb the more damaging radiation. Luckily again, its been slightly overcast lately.