Solar Flare Question

[Guest]

Do any of you space weather watchers know the strength of the solar flares/CMEs yesterday? They were NOT aimed at Earth, but still -----

In light of what's going on around the world, it makes me wonder!

[Boston]

Re: Solar Flare Question

Do any of you space weather watchers know the strength of the solar flares/CMEs yesterday? They were NOT aimed at Earth, but still -----

In light of what's going on around the world, it makes me wonder!

Flares/ magnetic filaments / CME’s are very associated but not necessary the same events. I can’t find a x-ray Flare# on line given to the filament detonation that produced a CME yesterday.

So like we get radio interference from a flare almost same time, but CMEs take a while to get here. They happen at the same time but not the something. So I believe you can have a magnetic filament detonate with a low x-ray, and you can have a large x-ray with no CME. But more often than not they all take place around each other. (like an earthquake causes an Tsunami)

We also get effected by coronal holes with a solar wind that have ho flare associated at all.

The range is like earthquakes but with several categories for x-flares. So weakest to strongest is: b c m x categories. Then # going up so an example is: M6 flare is much weaker than a x1.

http://spaceweather.com/glossary/flareclasses.html

the chart I see for yesterday ranged up to M but may have yet to be updated
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/xray_5m.html

[Guest]

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Got that.

THIS article uses terms like "giant" and "monster" etc... but never says how big the giant monster was - LOL So I thought maybe you had a source that said it was M-9 or X-22 or whatever.

There was an M-class flair earlier in the week, apparently. I didn't see it, myself.

[Issachar]

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... article uses terms like "giant" and "monster" etc...

... There was an M-class flair earlier in the week, ...

Maybe they thought the 'M' is the abbreviation for Monster?

Issachar

[Guest]

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Maybe they thought the 'M' is the abbreviation for Monster?

Bad, Issachar... You're as bad as me. Bad. LOL

[Boston]

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Got that.

THIS article uses terms like "giant" and "monster" etc... but never says how big the giant monster was - LOL So I thought maybe you had a source that said it was M-9 or X-22 or whatever.

There was an M-class flair earlier in the week, apparently. I didn't see it, myself.

it was a monster Filament explosion (plasma suspended over the sun in magnetic fields)

It was not an x-ray flare, which would use the scale you are thinking of

You would not call a 50 foot tsunami a 7.5, you would call it a monster tsunami

[Guest]

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you should only become concerned about solar flares WHEN:
>> the solar flares cause all your hair to stand on end
>> you catch a fried fish...
>> your synapes are fried enough THAT: you start believing in global warming and that twinkies are bad for you...

I got the last box of Hostess cupcakes in San Diego... I will likely bronze the box eat the twinkies/whatever-- as I listen to "The ride of the Valkeries"

sad so sad but i just got word that Hostess will open a factory in heaven

[Guest]

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it was a monster Filament explosion (plasma suspended over the sun in magnetic fields)

Ahhhhh, THANKS....

That does clear up my confusion....

[Guest]

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but i just got word that Hostess will open a factory in heaven

You, also, Lewis, are Bad. Very Bad.

[Guest]

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This is the site I check on CME with..



http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html

[Glorify Him]

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Actually, they were not monster or any other kind of solar flares. That was people's brains frying over the idea of no more Ho Hos or Twinkies. LOL