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Solar flares are here, everyone unplug your dryer!

Turns out we have exceptionally high solar activity right now, with a category 4 solar flair expected to impact the planet, potentially affecting satellite communications, electronics and power grids.

Of course, if history is any guide the news is absolutely over excited over this, at best those in the northern states may see pretty lights at night.  I was particularly amused this afternoon at a CNN weather person recommending you unplug your dryer just to be safe.  I mean, is that really the most important appliance in his house?  🤣

Also, kind of off topic, if you have binoculars or a telescope with the right solar filters you can catch a glimpse of the dark spots on the sun associated with this CME.  Amazing to imagine that it is about 15-16x wider than the earth. 

erik_squires
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toddalin
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Figures!  Tonight my DVR won't record, but probably will after a reboot, which will cause me to miss Saturday Night Live.

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laoman
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"This is also interesting:"

No it is not.

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pennfootball71
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Chicken Little also said the sky was falling

rodman99999
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      Don't know if this has been covered, in all of the above rhetoric, but:

      The closer one lives to the North Pole (for this event), the greater the effect of the electromagnetic disturbances.    ie: Possible blown grid transformers/power outages, etc.

       Our/Earth's magnetic field is weaker at the poles and allows more of the Sun's excretions to react with our atmosphere's gases.   Why what we're now seeing ("Northern Lights") further South, is an anomaly.

        All wiring can, given enough surrounding electromagnetic energy, act as an antenna and absorb whatever's available.

                                          The results are nothing new:  

                             https://www.space.com/the-carrington-event    

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