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Massive solar prominence yesterday (7/6/11)

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  • #2
    Plug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Can that effect our climate? Better weather?


  • #3
    peterako
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 720 ✭✭✭peterako


    Hoping to do a project with my middle child on that subject (Sun activity and weather).

    Have invested in AstroSolar film and am in teh process of making filters for my Newt and her 70mm Refractor!

    Love to hear the replies to Plug's question.


  • #4
    ihavequestions
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 711 ✭✭✭ihavequestions


    Quite possible for people in Northern Ireland to see some auora tonight if the clouds break some bit (which doesn't look likely).
    Auroral activity will be high. Weather permitting, highly active auroral displays will be visible overhead from Tromsø, Norway to as far south as Sundsvall, Sweden and Arkhangelsk, Russia, visible low on the horizon from Edinburgh and Valga, Estonia.

    http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/3


  • #5
    snowstreams
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    Plug wrote: »
    Can that effect our climate? Better weather?

    It cant affect our weather on its own as far as i know. But it could be a sign that our sun is waking up and our weather could return to more normal patterns in a year or two (i.e. less blocking highs during winter).

    If you havent seen this thread in the weather forum, you might find it interesting. Its a massive thread so could take a while to get through it all for the good bits.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055544236


  • #6
    slade_x
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 1,426 Mod ✭✭✭✭slade_x


    http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/News060711-blast.html
    The Sun unleashed an M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare, an S1-class (minor) radiation storm and a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME) on June 7, 2011 from sunspot complex 1226-1227. The large cloud of particles mushroomed up and fell back down looking as if it covered an area of almost half the solar surface.........


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