Solar storm effect to reach Earth tomorrow 3/14/18

[Wagtail]

It really doesn't have anything to do with time zones etc...

(I know, Mate... just pulling your chain, especially as I'm well over half a day ahead of you in N.A.)

 

[/pine]

(I know, Mate... just pulling your chain, especially as I'm well over half a day ahead of you in N.A.)

No worries...I'm more than used to it...guess you won't be seeing any of the aurora display there down under this time...

 

[Gale Hawkins]

No worries...I'm more than used to it...guess you won't be seeing any of the aurora display there down under this time...

I have just seen one in my 67 years in KY. My grandfather had come out and for some reason was milking the cows and I was like 5 years old. I remember a green sky but after he said that Jesus may be coming back I was stressed. My day was not home so I did not want Jesus coming back with Dad off somewhere. People should be careful about what they say around small kids.

 

[sd455dan]

Space Weather Message Code: WATA20
Serial Number: 819
Issue Time: 2018 Mar 12 1908 UTC
WATCH: Geomagnetic Storm Category G1 Predicted
Highest Storm Level Predicted by Day:
Mar 13: None (Below G1) Mar 14: G1 (Minor) Mar 15: G1 (Minor)
THIS SUPERSEDES ANY/ALL PRIOR WATCHES IN EFFECT
NOAA Space Weather Scales | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 60 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude.
Induced Currents - Weak power grid fluctuations can occur.
Spacecraft - Minor impact on satellite operations possible.
Aurora - Aurora may be visible at high latitudes, i.e., northern tier of the U.S. such as northern Michigan and Maine.



I don't expect this particular event to be any different than the many minor events we have all the time. This information is available on :

SOLARHAM.com | Solar Cycle 24 | Space Weather and Amateur Radio Website

1 more to check out: SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids

it is a Good sized hole http://www.spaceweather.com/images2018/13mar18/ch2.jpg?PHPSESSID=gpatsjgkau39trivkangm4qb40

 

[newbury]

Well I was hoping for at least some Northern lights.
But according to "SpaceWeather"

NOAA forecasters say there is a 55% chance of G1-class geomagnetic storms when the solar wind stream arrives on March 14th or 15th. G1-class storms are relatively minor and have little effect on satellites and global power grids. However, they can disorient animals that migrate using magnetic cues at high latitudes and usually spark bright auroras around the Arctic Circle.

 

[Wagtail]

No worries...I'm more than used to it...guess you won't be seeing any of the aurora display there down under this time...

I just checked the "aurora australis" website and the chances are -1... however that figures out.

Hobart and the South of Tassie get to see them every now and then. I'm in the North East and when they occur all I have been able to see is a slight greenish glow to the South of me. Looks like light pollution from a town that I know doesn't exist.

 

[turnkey4099]

Best one I ever saw was back in the ?90s?. Got off work at midnigh in town - it is located at the bottome of a river canyon, my place is 5 miles north on the plain. From work it looked like the whol norther sky was lit up. I instantly thought of FIRE!. I made the 3 mile climb up out of the canyon and saw it was the Northern Lights playing, lit up from horizon to zenith. Got home and called both my neighbors, told them to watch ti but turn off their yard lights. Both places, light went off and a few minutes later back on. Display lasted well into the morning, I went to bed about 3am with it still going.

 

[Opti-Mist]

I grew up in the U.P. of MI that sticks out into Lake Superior. Northern Lights were about as common as sunrise.

 

[dieselalles]

When I was a kid growing up in West Tennessee, I was always fascinated by the skies and what they offered. I used to drag my Sears & Roebuck telescope back down a ridge behind our barn where I was treated to a huge bowl of stars. Comets, shooting stars, the moon, planets, double stars, nebulae and galaxies were so neat to see. And even though that cheap scope didn't give me a lot of detail, my imagination filled in the rest. And even satellites smoothly traveling across the sky were a wonder. Now mind you, this was way, WAY before the internet! But I had the next best thing. My mother was the librarian at the main library in town. And I remember as a kid how the aurora borealis treated us one night to a show I'll never forget. We were planting soybeans late into the night and I lay up on top of the bags of seed on a farm trailer taking it all in as sheets of color danced across the sky. I read that it was rare for it to come down that far South. Shortly after that event my grandfather passed away. Since then, whenever I see the Northern Lights, on TV or the internet, I think of him. Fast forward to now, last August we were treated to a full solar eclipse in Middle Tennessee. It was an absolutely amazing event when it reached totality. Everyone with us went nuts I remember! And I had a much larger version of my Sears & Roebuck telescope with a camera mounted, and cameras mounted on tripods too, to try and capture everything. My oldest son helped me set everything up and run everything. And it was so neat to share that moment with family and friends. It was specially neat to share it with my oldest son because it would be the last time I would ever get to see him again in this lifetime. One week later he passed away from a severe asthmatic attack at the age of 32. Some day I will join him. But now, whenever I see the moon, or his favorite constellation, Orion, I think of him. He left behind two young sons, now aged 16 months and 3 months. And my job is to help raise them, give them a sense of how wonderful their father was and introduce them to the wonders that the skies give us. And just how much darn fun it is to drive a tractor!

Well, I retired from Verizon recently. But before Verizon, I worked for Northern Telecom/Nortel for 17 years in field support and emergency technical assistance. And I can't remember a time where a solar storm impacted telecommunications and we had switching systems around the world. Earthquakes, lightning and flooding were our most problematic natural events. And it was the same for my oldest son in his work. He was an electrical engineer for a company that did a lot of power generation and substation work for the TVA and The Southern Company. No identifyable solar storm disruptions that he could ever remember in his 10 years there.

 

[k0ua]

I wonder if we have talked. I worked with Nortel equipment as a tech and later and engineer, finishing up 15 years with Windstream and 21 years with Midwestern Telephone before that.