Tag: sunspots
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NASA Warns ‘Something Unexpected Happening To The Sun’
Mail Online reports NASA expecting a solar max in 2013, confronted instead, with low sunspot activity on Sun (picture). The article offers possible explanation, “… Solar physicist Dean Pesnell of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center believes he has a different explanation. ‘This is solar maximum,’ he says. ‘But it looks different from what we expected…
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is active region 1339 the big one?
Is Active Region 1339 (AR1339) the “Big One”, the reason government and insiders are stressing emergency preparedness? “NASA Warns Employees and Families to BE PREPARED,”comes to mind. Universe Today (UT) in article, “Largest Sunspot in Years Now on the Sun, reports AR1339 came into direct view on November 3. The huge sunspot located in the…
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listening to the sun improves sunspot forecasts
from latimes: Sunspots, those dark regions on the surface of the sun whose high magnetic activity has ripple effects for Earthlings, seem to emerge and fade without warning. But now, by listening to the sounds the sun makes, scientists have managed to predict when a sunspot will appear up to two days beforehand. The findings,…
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aurora alert: year’s largest solar flare
The largest so far this year, a category M6.6 solar flare is earthbound. A skywatcher alert has been issued for auroras in possibly lower as well as higher latitudes. Experts agree a cloud of radiation from a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), will hit the Earth’s magnetic field on or about Feb. 15th. The source of…
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your solarcast: dalton minimum repeat
The lack of sunspot activity seems to support predictions of cold temperatures? Anthony Watts, in an article at Watts Up With That?, predicts a repeat of a Dalton Minimum. Watts recaps solar cycle expert David Archibald’s graphs. What is a Dalton Minimum and its weather implications? “The Dalton Minimum was a period of low solar activity,…
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nasa says solar flare will strike earth nov 14 or 15
Sunspot 1123 hurled a C-4 class solar flare in the Earth’s direction just south of the Sun-Earth line, sometime, in the early hours of Nov. 12, 2010. The coronal mass ejection (CME) could glance off the Earth’s magnetic field on either Nov. 14th or Nov. 15th to create auroras. Full article is at Before It’s…