Massive solar storm heading our way

[Heckler]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5494489/Huge-solar-storm-set-slam-Earth-TOMORROW.html

 

[alant]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5494489/Huge-solar-storm-set-slam-Earth-TOMORROW.html

Its already affecting Viago.

 

[Poignard]

Well I just hope the Daily Mail is spreading fake news, as it usually does.

 

[alant]

Well I just hope the Daily Mail is spreading fake news, as it usually does.

How would you, who claims not to read it, know it spreads fake news?

Take your pick.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=s...droid-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

 

[Poignard]

How would you, who claims not to read it, know it spreads fake news?

Take your pick.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=s...droid-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Because Private Eye says so.

 

[GHA]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5494489/Huge-solar-storm-set-slam-Earth-TOMORROW.html

Complete cobblers it seems -

http://www.newsweek.com/no-massive-geomagnetic-storm-will-not-hit-earth-march-18-840647

"This story is not plausible in any way, shape or form," Bob Rutledge, who leads NOAA's Space Weather Forecast Center, told Newsweek via e-mail. "Things are all quiet for space weather, and the sun is essentially spotless."

G1 is as low as it goes..

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g1-watch-14-and-15-march-2018-utc-days

 

[Lon nan Gruagach]

"Equinox cracks" in the magnetic field....

That rag has been drinking the flat earth coolaid.

So, from some real scientists:
http://www.aurora-service.eu/aurora-forecast/

Looks like a peak of kp5... not worth getting out of bed for.

 

[macd]

Well I just hope the Daily Mail is spreading fake news, as it usually does.

Quite likely. I bet the science correspondent (if he is one) is spitting at the subs throwing a "massive" headline over his piece.
It's probably all Brussels' fault, anyway.

 

[Ludd]

Quite likely. I bet the science correspondent (if he is one) is spitting at the subs throwing a "massive" headline over his piece.
It's probably all Brussels' fault, anyway.

No it's not! It's all down to that bloody sports car!

 

[alant]

Complete cobblers it seems -

http://www.newsweek.com/no-massive-geomagnetic-storm-will-not-hit-earth-march-18-840647


G1 is as low as it goes..

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g1-watch-14-and-15-march-2018-utc-days

http://news.sky.com/story/solar-sto...h-northern-lights-on-wednesday-night-11289321

 

[zoidberg]

Gosh!

Quick, reef the routers!

 

[chrishscorp]

Well I just hope the Daily Mail is spreading fake news, as it usually does.

I always make sure we have a copy available on board, torn into useable strips, that will be found in the heads

 

[lpdsn]

http://news.sky.com/story/solar-sto...h-northern-lights-on-wednesday-night-11289321

I note the recommendation to observe the aurora in a clear cloudless sky. Does anyone know where I can get one of those? It's tipping it down here.

 

[GHA]

http://news.sky.com/story/solar-sto...h-northern-lights-on-wednesday-night-11289321

Yep, complete non story.

 

[oldgit]

Only so many times you can print the word Brexit in a newspaper Headline

You can register with one of many solar weather websites to get alerts of impending solar activity.
Frequently log on when receiving alerts only to find that a quick dash to the Shetlands is required.
The last half decent "storm" resulting in any visible aurora here in southern UK must have been 20 years ago ?
Light pollution does not help.

 

[alant]

I always make sure we have a copy available on board, torn into useable strips, that will be found in the heads

Newsprint is no longer the soft absorbant stuff of yesteryear.

 

[Daydream believer]

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It's probably all Brussels' fault, anyway.

Yeah!! you are right. When my mother in law gets brussels it is followed by one hell of a storm.
Dunno about aurora, more aroma - is that the same thing?:ambivalence: