ALERT Incoming CME's Go Read this Thread NOW!!! - Maximum G5 Solar Storm Event Is In Progress Friday 5/10 -

[packyderms_wife]

In a flat earth world, is there any worry about the ice wall with an X8 flare?

Ummm yeah, lets keep the flat earth stuff to the other threads please. TIA.

 

[Hfcomms]

All that energy dumped into the earth the last few weeks is going to pop out somewhere....just a matter of time.

 

[packyderms_wife]

All that energy dumped into the earth the last few weeks is going to pop out somewhere....just a matter of time.

There was one volcanic eruption in the Pacific Ocean, so far.

 

[Chance]

Largest X8.7 blew off the sun.
Edited to add...not earth facing.

 

[TheSearcher]

Largest X8.7 blew off the sun.

 

[Chance]

We're doomed.

 

[bw]

We're doomed.

Yeah, but at least we have memes to help us through it. Imagine how bleak the end of the world would be without a sense of humor.

 

[Marthanoir]

We're doomed.

 

[danielboon]

M7.2 3685

 

[Slydersan]

RARE SOUTH PACIFIC AURORAS CONFIRM 'GREAT STORM': On the south Pacific island of New Caledonia, no one expects to see auroras. Ever. Situated about halfway between Tonga and Australia, the cigar-shaped island is too close to the equator for Northern or Southern Lights. Yet on May 10, 2024, this happened:

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"I have rarely been so happy when taking a photo!" says Frédéric Desmoulins, who photographed the display from Boulouparis in the island's south province. "I could see the red color of the auroras with my naked eye. According to the New Caledonian Astronomy Society, these photos are the first for this territory."


"The auroral visibility from New Caledonia is really unique and extremely valuable," says Hisashi Hayakawa, a space weather researcher at Japan's Nagoya University. "As far as we know, the last time sky watchers saw auroras in the area was during the Carrington Event of Sept. 1859, when auroras were sighted from a ship in the Coral Sea."


Hayakawa specializes in historical studies of great auroral storms. He tries to go back in time as far as possible. The problem is, magnetometers and modern sensors didn't exist hundreds or thousands of years ago. Instead, he looks for records of aurora sightings in old newspapers, diaries, ships logs, even cuneiform tablets. Great Storms are identified by their low latitude--anything with naked-eye auroras below 30° MLAT (magnetic latitude).


"May 10th was definitely a Great Storm," declares Hayakawa. "Naked-eye auroras sightings in New Caledonia (MLAT = -26.4°) and Puerto Rico (MLAT = 27.2°) confirm this in both hemispheres."

Note: This is a figure modified from Hayakawa et al. (2024).​

In fact, it is among the top 20 Great Storms of the past 500 years. The above timeline from a research paper by Hayakawa has been modified to display the May 10th event. It is the green dot on the far-right end of the timeline.

This isn't just an arcane historical curiosity. "We need to know about Great Storms of the past to understand how big storms might become today," explains Hayakawa. "Our modern technological society depends upon it."

Readers, if you witnessed auroras at low latitudes on May 10th, please submit your photos to our gallery and fill out this questionnaire from Hayakawa. Your observations may be included in a future research paper about this extreme storm.

SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids

 

[bw]

This isn't just an arcane historical curiosity. "We need to know about Great Storms of the past to understand how big storms might become today," explains Hayakawa. "Our modern technological society depends upon it."

From what I've learned during this event, I'm persuaded that this is not such a massive storm but that our magnetic shield is failing. And yes, our tech society depends on it. Interesting times.

 

[Millwright]

The sun is still burping.



Space Weather Message Code: SUMXM5
Serial Number: 227
Issue Time: 2024 May 17 2133 UTC

SUMMARY: X-ray Event exceeded M5
Begin Time: 2024 May 17 2033 UTC
Maximum Time: 2024 May 17 2108 UTC
End Time: 2024 May 17 2126 UTC
X-ray Class: M7.2
Optical Class: 2b
Location: S13E50
NOAA Scale: R2 - Moderate

NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at
www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation

Potential Impacts: Area of impact centered primarily on sub-solar point on the sunlit side of Earth.
Radio - Limited blackout of HF (high frequency) radio communication for tens of minutes.


Several other warnings here.

Alerts, Watches and Warnings | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center

www.swpc.noaa.gov

 

[desertvet2]

The great, hot, wet fart shall bring down this global civilization just as it brought down the past "advanced" civilizations.

 

[Samuel Adams]

Is this what ya’ll got in mind ?

(2 min.)

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=spfNsK9ye_8&pp=ygUTS25vd2luZyBmaW5hbCBzY2VuZQ%3D%3D

 

[Tristan]

From what I've learned during this event, I'm persuaded that this is not such a massive storm but that our magnetic shield is failing. And yes, our tech society depends on it. Interesting times.

"Interesting", like in FireFly?