Solar flares - coronal mass ejections

[garinda]

Originally Posted by garinda

By the way, I have found this thread very interesting. So thank you.

[Tealeaf]

How's t'Northern Lights?

Is Accy lit up yet?

Has anyone got a barby going in the back yard?

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Has anyone got a barby going in the back yard?

No.

We're saving our charcoal rations until April 29th.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by garinda

No.

We're saving our charcoal rations until April 29th.

Out special happening on April 29th

[garinda]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Out special happening on April 29th

Yes. Where've you been?

It's David Icke's birthday party.

[MargaretR]

As the solar cycle gets nearer its maximum, there is a greater chance of us seeing the Northern Lights here in Lancs.

If you want to see them, you can ask to be advised by email from Lancaster UNI when the chances to see are likely.

Welcome to AuroraWatch

[garinda]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

As the solar cycle gets nearer its maximum, there is a greater chance of us seeing the Northern Lights here in Lancs.

If you want to see them, you can ask to be advised by email from Lancaster UNI when the chances to see are likely.

Welcome to AuroraWatch

I was all excited, until a scientist was interviewed on the BBC breakfast news, and said it's now unlikely we'll see the lights in the UK tonight, even in the Scottish highlands.

[MargaretR]

If you look at this site
SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids
you can see that northern england was in the auroral field of view.
We could have seen mild changes in the sky colour if it hadn't been so very cloudy.

[Spider61]

I am sure that most people think that the light show lasts all night but with my experience it doesn’t. You may get a minute or so at a time. Whilst I was in the middle of Iceland I stopped up most of the night waiting to see the lights, and waited, and waited. Eventually they started, I called the others who where asleep in a hut. By the time they where out of the windowless hut the show had ended.

We did get one more glance ( same trip ) whilst we where in the most northern curry house in the world, in Reykjavik. We saw the common green and the more rare red/purple. It lasted seconds.

This was probably at a low sun spot activity season.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

Do you not remember the CME that knocked out all electricity in Quebec in 1989?

Remember it well. Hydro Quebec is particularly vulnerable. Much of the power comes from the north, in Baie James. Quebec is a major exporter of electricity.

[steeljack]

Originally Posted by garinda

I was all excited, until a scientist was interviewed on the BBC breakfast news, and said it's now unlikely we'll see the lights in the UK tonight, even in the Scottish highlands.

seems they must have been a common occurance at one time , no idea how often they happen these days , hence the song

[MargaretR]

Whilst you were watching rioting and/or the stock market crashing,
we happened to have an X class solar flare
http://www.n3kl.org/sun/images/noaa_xrays.gif?

Hectic aint it?

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

Whilst you were watching rioting and/or the stock market crashing,
we happened to have an X class solar flare
http://www.n3kl.org/sun/images/noaa_xrays.gif?

Hectic aint it?

Whatever turns ya on Margaret

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Whatever turns ya on Margaret

Just hope the electricity supply to your oxygen machine doesn't turn off

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

Just hope the electricity supply to your oxygen machine doesn't turn off

I've back up bottles