SPACE WEATHER

[GordMay]

A trio of solar storms are heading for Earth, potentially disrupting radio and satellite communications – but also causing some impressive aurora in the night sky.

On November 27, the Space Weather Prediction Center, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA] detected multiple Earth-facing CMEs, blasting off from the surface of the Sun.
Right now, massive chunks of charged plasma are racing toward us, on a collision course, prompting NOAA to release a geomagnetic storm watch* for November 30 through December 1.

* Geomagnetic Storm Watch ➥ https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g3-st...-full-halo-cme

[Orion Jim]

I erected a Faraday cage around my home years ago to protect against solar storms. As an added precaution I still keep my tinfoil hat handy…

[team karst]

If strong enough, these DC induced currents can take our largest power transformers off line and disrupt natural gas lines. I worked on designs to measure these currents. Not sure about the natural gas pipes, but i do know that transformers really dont like dc current flow.

[CaptTom]

Darn! Forecast is for clouds and rain. Some day I'd like to see the Aurora around here.

[JSSailem]

I enjoy a weekly news letter from this group of scientists. The images and movie clips of their solar observations are fun to review.

https://www.stce.be/newsletter/newsletter.php

Tin foil hats.. Oh my...