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FOUND THIS GUY OVER AT THE MISTS.

The Weather Report you will not hear on the news.
THIS IS THE NEWS THAT YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO HEAR


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Great find.

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HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY......and what better way to celebrate a saint..........get pissed rolling drunk on guiness.

GREEN SKIES FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY?
NOAA forecasters estimate a 25% chance of geomagnetic storms around the poles on March 17th in response to a high-speed solar wind stream buffeting Earth's magnetic field. Northern Lights could descend all the way down to Ireland, concluding St. Patrick's Day with a flourish of heavenly green.

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GREEN SKIES FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY? NOAA forecasters estimate a 25% chance of geomagnetic storms around the poles on March 17th in response to a high-speed solar wind stream buffeting Earth's magnetic field. Northern Lights could descend all the way down to Ireland, concluding St. Patrick's Day with a flourish of heavenly green.

In Alberta, Canada, photographer Zoltan Kenwell started celebrating a day early when this display appeared on March 16th:

"I have never seen the auroras dance so quickly before. It was an unbelievable show," says Kenwell. "The view looking straight up was incredible. I laid down in the middle of a field and just watched in total amazement.

Here is a time-lapse movie." - http://vimeo.com/38653299


SUNSET CONJUNCTION: When the sun goes down tonight, step outside and look west. Venus and Jupiter are beaming through the twilight less than 4o apart. Sky watchers of all ages, and species, are enjoying the show:

http://www.spaceweather.com/

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SOHO..March16 Solar Flare..Huge! Must See

This is a Video I created using tonight's SOHO Images. It looks to me like another HUGE Solar Flare..I am waiting on officials to see if it is X class. Some believe the last Xclass Solar Flare was the cause of the Japan Earthquake.


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Solar explosions now on official register as threat to the security of hi-tech Britain

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Cabinet Office includes solar flares alongside terrorism, floods and pandemics in a list of catastrophes that could damage the country

England's farmers may be praying for a sustained downpour amid the current drought, but Whitehall has a more exotic weather threat on its mind.

Explosions on the sun that blast solar winds towards the Earth have been identified for the first time as one of the biggest threats to the UK's ability to carry on normal daily life, according to a new official government register of major risks to the country.

A significant event on the sun could leave large swaths of the country without electricity, lead to the immediate grounding of planes, disable communications and even destroy household appliances.

The danger has been prioritised in the Cabinet Office's National Risk of Civil Emergencies as the sun enters the most active point in its 10-year cycle – its solar max – raising the chances of a damaging burst of radiation, plasma or energetic particles (such as neutrons).

More significantly, the UK is regarded as particularly vulnerable because scientific advances have made the country more dependent on technology than ever before. Ministers have been advised by scientists that the most advanced technology is also the most delicate and that "high levels of energetic particles produced in the atmosphere by solar radiation storms can greatly enhance error rates in ground digital components found in all modern technology".

The newly published risk register lists severe space weather alongside terrorist attacks, coastal flooding and pandemic influenza as likely sources of "serious damage to human welfare".

It says: "Severe space weather can cause disruption to a range of technologies and infrastructure, including communications systems, electronic circuits and power grids."

The register adds: "While storm impacts in the early- to mid-20th century appear relatively benign, dependency on technology vulnerable to space weather has pervaded most aspects of modern life, and therefore the disruptive consequences of a severe solar storm could be significant."

The threat was placed on the register after a panel of experts, including two scientists from the Meteorological Office, produced a "reasonable worst case scenario" for ministers.

Mark Gibbs, one of the Met Office's representatives on the panel, told the Observer he could not "go into details" about the repercussions of an occurrence of the most damaging type of space weather, but added that a solar storm could induce currents in power lines leading to a failure of the main grid; meddle with the components in planes, particularly those flying over the north pole, where solar radiation is most noticeable; and ultimately provoke a major civil emergency.

Gibbs said: "Potentially the biggest risk of all is to the electricity supply. Now in the US that is deemed to be a catastrophic risk. They could lose a very large proportion of their power grid. In the UK, for many different reasons – better engineering design, different way it operates, geology – the risk is less severe, but it is a risk nonetheless. Society can't function without power."

Professor Andrew Coates, head of the planetary science group at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, said the level of damage caused by solar storms depended on their speed and magnetic direction. He added that there were contingency measures that could be taken, but the worst possible scenario would make any preparations meaningless.

Coates said: "The sun is the source of it all. The culprit if you like. As well as heat and light, it emits charge particles, a million tonnes a second of solar wind particles which blow outwards away from the sun. They are so hot that they can escape the sun's atmosphere. That plasma moves out through the solar system and the Earth obviously gets in the way of some of it.

"If we know an event is coming, we have to be careful. Astronauts on a space station will hide in a place with more shielding, thicker walls. Satellite operations can be planned so that critical operations don't happen when we are expecting bad space weather. Flights can have their plans changed and terrestrial systems can be monitored and the capacity of the grid can be adjusted accordingly.

"If the worst happens, which happens once every few hundred years, that sort of event would have a huge effect on technology that we rely on and go beyond the types of contingency there are in the system."

James Arbuthnot, chairman of the parliamentary defence select committee, which called for the government to address the risks earlier this year, said there was also the danger of man-made weapons being exploded in space to create electromagnetic pulses, knocking out satellites, radar and the national grid.

Arbuthnot said: "We are becoming more and more reliant on technology and that technology is becoming more and more delicate. Be afraid, very afraid." :giggle: :giggle:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/ ... technology

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FIRST DAY OF NORTHERN SPRING: The seasons are changing. Today, March 20th, the sun crossed the celestial equator heading north. This marks the beginning of Spring in the northern hemisphere and Autumn in the southern hemisphere. At this time of year, day and night are of nearly equal length, hence the name "equinox" (equal night).

Good news for sky watchers: Spring is aurora season. For reasons not fully understood by researchers, the weeks around equinoxes are prone to Northern Lights. "With the exception of one cloudy night we have now seen the auroras 16 nights in a row," reports aurora tour guide Chad Blakley from the Abisko National Park in Sweden. "What a season!" He snapped this picture on March 19th:


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"I combined some of the photos to make a time-lapse movie," says Blakley. "It was another great night in Abisko!"



NOAA forecasters estimate a 20% chance of polar geomagnetic storms tonight. The odds of auroras, however, might be even better. Happy Equinox! Aurora alerts: text, phone.

more images: from Nenne Åman of Arjeplog, Sweden; from Dirk Obudzinski of Steese National Conservation Area, Alaska; from B.Art Braafhart of Salla, Finnish Lapland; from Larry Jenkins of Labrador City, NL Canada; from Jónína Óskarsdóttir of Faskrudsfjordur, Iceland; from Peter Scott of Durness, Scotland, UK; from Francis Anderson of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories Canada;

SCINTILLATION SQUIGGLES: Everyone knows that stars twinkle but planets do not. The reason has to do with angular size. Stars are distant pinpricks smaller than the thermal irregularities in Earth's atmosphere that refract their light. Each packet of air that passes in front of a star produces a well-defined change in color or brightness. Planets, on the other hand, are relatively nearby and wide; they span many atmospheric irregularities, which tends to smooth out the prismatic action.

Photographer Monika Landy-Gyebnar of Veszprem, Hungary, has found a kinetic way to demonstrate the effect. "When photographing a star or planet, kick the tripod during the exposure." She's applied this technique to many stars and planets, and the resulting collection of squiggles reveals the character of their twinkles:

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"If we take a photo of a star with a shaking camera, the result is a wavy line with many colors," she points out. "If we photograph a planet, however, there is no change; the color and width of the squiggle are nearly constant."

The scintillation effect is greatest for stars near the horizon, which must shine through a greater distance of turbulent atmosphere. Angles noted in the image above are altitudes. The lowest-hanging stars display the strongest and most colorful twinkling.

"Demonstrating this is a 'must-do' thing when you give a lecture or show on astronomical observations for novices," she concludes. Observing tips and more of Landy-Gyebnar's "scintillation squiggles" may be found here.

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Solar Update/New Magnetopause Link

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Climate Change Update (21 March 2011) ((NEW)) Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

An oil slick measuring 12 miles wide and 100 miles long has been spotted in the Gulf of Mexico and is suspected to be from a new major leak at the Matterhorn Seastar oil rig just 20 miles from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Pilots from several independent organization are monitoring the slick and report it is spreading fast. Fishermen in Louisiana are reporting fresh oil slicks washing up on shore. Boom has been placed by cleanup crews to catch the spill. The Matterhorn field produces 5200 barrels of oil a day and was discovered in 1999. The well sits in 2789 feet of water and has been in production since 2003. It is 30 miles SE of the Mississippi River delta.
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?cid=30005


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