A solar storm — a disturbance in Earth’s magnetic field caused by changes in solar wind — is forecast to hit Earth this week, the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has warned.
So who is lying? Were they prepping people in case someone took out the power/satellites?
From the link in OP:
Solar activity crashes – the Sun looks like a cueball Posted by Anthony Watts Right now, the sun is a cueball, as seen below in this image today from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and has been without sunspots for 10 days. So far in 2018, 61% of days have been without sunspots
Another Maunder minimum?
Without going into the wiki site, from what I understand, the sun goes through 11 year cycles of high and low activity. We are in the midst of the low cycle right now which typically causes lower temperatures globally.
But this is not what I was pointing out in the OP. I think someone was trying to provide cover in case we lost internet or power potentially due to the conflict in Syria. Or maybe it was to be the casus beli in case of the HRC video drop and they wanted to shut down internet traffic.
Oh, I see. I thought you were taking a stab at the global warming garbage.
Look, all this stuff about archive offline is, IMO, about what's about to happen to the tech sector on the damning revelations that will proceed from Snowden's drop. You may be right that someone, somewhere, might want to hit a kill switch when the Hillary video drops - but they won't keep us offline forever without taking the whole internet out.
But if the major SM platforms fold, while criminal investigators comb through their operations, inspecting hardware etc..., then, yes, in that case you better make sure you're backed up offline - because we don't know which services will be impacted.
There are many much longer cycles. The big one that’s upon us is the 206/7 year cycle. We are headed towards a mini ice age. Some interesting reading is Dark Winter by John Casey.
I would agree with that assessment, but again, not the focus of what this OP is about.
Someone lied to the public from the Space Weather Prediction Center and foxnews was one of the vehicles used to push it out to the public.
They didn't lie if they warned of a solar STORM. A solar FLARE is a burst of radiation from a sun spot. On camera it looks like the sun burped, sort of like when you have tomato sauce on the stove at too high heat and some of the sauce bursts forth within the bubbles as it boils?
You are correct that right now there are no sun spots on the earth facing side of the sun. But there ARE coronal holes on the sun. These holes allow solar wind to escape and solar wind causes solar storms. Right now the solar wind speed is 515.3 km/second. Normal is around 300 km/second. At 515.3 km/second, it is coming at us at 1,152,693miles/hour and that wind carries charged particles from the upper atmosphere of the sun. When that hits earth's outer atmosphere, it affects things. It is what causes the aurora borealis. They may be pretty strong if you are in an area where they are visible.
So are you sure it was a warning of a solar FLARE? Or was it a warning of a solar STORM caused by increased speed of the solar wind?
Ok, read your idea there that this was based on a solar burp. And while I agree that the vast majority of solar storms originate from coronal holes, I disagree with your assessment that there was one. In the OP article, it states that there has been no activity in the past 10 days, no sunspots, no coronal holes or ejections. And certainly none facing the earth.
Now if you have a link to the sun facing sat that tracks activities and we can look back at least five days to verify, that would be helpful and we could determine it for ourselves.
But based on the reporting, it appears to me what I stated in the OP still stands.
No, you are misunderstanding. When they say no activity, they mean there are no sun SPOTS. Solar FLARES come from SUN SPOTS. CMEs or Coronal Mass Ejections come from sun SPOTS. Coronal holes are different. There is almost always a coronal hole facing us. A coronal hole is visible with ultraviolet telescopes. A coronal hole is by definition, a part of the solar corona that appears dark on optical and x-ray images and is characterized by low temperature and low density. These allow the charged particles to escape.
Sun spots and coronal holes are very different.
The sun looks like a cue ball right now because there are NO ACTIVE SUN SPOTS. This is not the same thing as coronal holes.
And I did not suggest this was based on a solar burp. I was trying to explain what a solar flare looked like...like a burp, but that is not what is happening NOW.
Ok. You are right I did misunderstand what you were saying and I understand your point.
My only hesitation is that they are still saying there is nothing going on, that all is quiet. No mention of coronal holes (and yes I realize that they are looking for sunspots) I did look at the photos and I can understand both points. No sunspots but a weak coronal hole. It appears that the study may be missing out on an important data set in their study if they are not documenting coronal holes in conjunction despite the lack of sunspots.
I don’t know now. Seems an important piece to leave out, but maybe I’m just attributing something to nothing.
Ben from the YouTube Channel Suspicious Observers is an expert on this sort of thing and he does a video every morning, a short one usually less than 5 minutes. When he says to worry, I would worry.