Solar Tsunami Alert As Giant Sunspot Looms

[BreakForNews]

Solar Tsunami Alert
As Giant Sunspot Looms

BreakForNews.com, 15th Jan, 2005 12:00ET
by Fintan Dunne, Editor EXCLUSIVE
http://www.breakfornews.com/articles/SolarTsunamiAlert.htm
Also

Fast-developing sunspot could match historic flares of Nov. '03

The sunspot grew quickly over the last four days -Image Spaceweather.com

Three days ago the sunspot numbered 10720 barely rated a mention.
But as it rotated into an earth-facing position, the boiling solar
cauldron quickly mushroomed in size to over seven times the diameter
of our own planet. Now experienced observers say it has explosive
potential for massive solar eruptions aimed at Earth.

It's been a busy 24 hours on the sun. A total of 28 C-class events
were recorded yesterday --the most C flares in a single day during the
current solar cycle 23.

"Extremely energetic flares, above the X10 class level, are possible,"
coments solar watcher Jan Alvestad. "This region has the potential to
generate flares similar to those observed in October/November 2003."

Such an X-class 10 flare would certainly rank along with the historic
flares of late 2003, when a series of nine massive X-class solar
eruptions in only 12 days all largely missed Earth. Nevertheless two
Japanese satellite failures and a power outage in Sweden were blamed
on the solar storms.



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[frogfromthenorth2]

1. OH NOO!!!!! WE ARE DOOOOOMED ......!!!! (not)

[BreakForNews]

2. Maybe not......

From the article:
http://www.breakfornews.com/articles/SolarTsunamiAlert.htm

"Despite the massive explosive power of such sunspots, our protective
magnetic field means significant effects are unlikely to be felt at the
surface of Earth."

Which falls just a little short of Doom. :)

[frogfromthenorth2]

3. I am kind of pissed off by their title... what's the point of making a

tsunami hint. Bad taste IMO....

[Nothing Without Hope]

4. I agree. VERY bad taste for them to use "tsunami" in title

as well as completely wrong scientically.

Glad to know about this potential for a big solar flare, though. I hope it doesn't materialize, or if it does, that it will not be aimed at our planet.

[dweller]

5. OOGah BOOgah has just lost the effect . . .n/t

dp

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6. Update - 2 Large CME Flares

Stop Press Jan16 12am:
Two coronal mass ejections are heading toward Earth and could spark
strong auroras when they arrive on January 16th & 17th. These clouds
were blasted into space by an M8-Class and an X2-class explosion above
giant sunspot 720 on Jan. 15th. -Spaceweather.com report

One of the flares:

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7. Update - Wow

Stop Press Monday Jan 17 10am:

An X4.2 eruption by spot 10720 beginning just before
7am GMT was moderating by 10am. It seems that we
have again escaped a squarely Earth-directed CME.
-- BreakForNews report

This morning's X4.2 Flare:



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[DrWeird]

8. Oh for fuck's sake.

I feel a tsunami of nausea washing over me.

[BreakForNews]

10. To be expected

These kind of eruptions are known to produce
psysiological effects on many people.

They get lighter, uplifted.
But not everybody, unfortunately.
The rest just keep bitchin' away as normal.

[DrWeird]

11. It's not the flare that's making me sick.

It's the title of the story and the pseudoscience paranoia.

[BreakForNews]

13. Kid with a Uzi

From the article:
http://www.breakfornews.com/articles/SolarTsunamiAlert....

"Despite the massive explosive power of such sunspots, our protective
magnetic field means significant effects are unlikely to be felt at the surface of Earth."

Which falls just a little short of Doom. Or paranoia.

I know, and credible scientists know, that one of these big CME's
can take out most of our deployed satellites in one fell swoop.
No problem. Maybe you knew that. Maybe now you do.

This morning the sun missed again.
It took ten major shots back in October/November 2003.
They missed too.

It's like confronting a kid with a Uzi submachine gun 300 yards away.
His aim is all over the place.

But you know the little bast**d is inevitably gonna get lucky once :)

But, it's not the end of the world. eh?

[indigobusiness]

9. Hey, Fintan

Just want to say I miss your newscasts on Mysteries of the Mind.

You were fun to listen to. I found your serious spiritual side as refreshing as your sense of humor.

Are doing anything similar elsewhere?

[BreakForNews]

12. Just try stopping me lol : )

Hey IndigoBiz,

Yeah, I had fun. Still do.
I do a full audio news show on BreakForNews.com now
I even still got a sense of humor..... :)

Show 2nite on this & Iraq stuff etc.