[youtube/watch?v=BTFXGuDqVrE] ● Twin solar storms arrive at Earth: ‘Space weather’ experts say double event unlikely to cause problems but alert issued to power and communication networks. Twin magnetically charged solar storms will arrive at Earth on Thursday and Friday, raising concerns that GPS signals, radio communications and power transmissions could be disrupted, “space weather” officials in the US have said::[youtube/watch?v=hN5X4kGhAtU ... ] [V1] We can remember swimming in December Heading for the city lights in 1975 We share in each other Nearer than farther The scent of a lemon drips from your eyes [Refrain] We are the people that rule the world A force running in every boy and girl All rejoicing in the world Take me now, we can try [V2] We lived an adventure Love in the Summer Followed the sun till night Reminiscing other times of life For each every other The feeling was stronger The shock hit eleven Got lost in your eyes [Hook] I cant do well when I think youre gonna leave me. But I know I try Are you gonna leave me now Cant you be believing now [x2] [V3] Can you remember and humanize It was still where wed energized Lie in the sand and visualize like its 75 again We are the people that rule the world A force running in every boy and girl All rejoicing in the world Take me now - We can try [Hook] I know everything about you Know everything about me I know everything about you Know everything about me. [youtube/watch?v=sokbBgu2-A4] ● Individually the storms, known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, would not warrant special warnings but their unusually close timing and direct path towards Earth prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Centre to issue an alert. The first CME burst from a magnetically disturbed region of the sun on Monday night and other erupted on Wednesday, said centre director Thomas Berger. “We don’t expect any unmanageable impacts to national infrastructure from these solar events at this time, but we are watching these events closely,” Berger said. The sun is in the peak of its 11-year cycle, though the overall level of activity is far lower than a typical solar max. Storms as powerful as the ones now making their way towards Earth typically occurred 100 to 200 times during a solar cycle, Berger said. “The unique thing about this event is that we’ve had two in close succession and the CMEs could possibly be interacting on their way to Earth, at the Earth’s orbit or beyond. We just don’t know that yet,” he said. The highly energetic, magnetically charged solar particles could hit Earth’s magnetic field and disrupt some radio communications and degrade GPS signals, NOAA said. Past storms have affected the power grid, and operators and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) had been notified “just in case”, Berger said. The storms might also trigger beautiful auroral displays along northern latitudes as electrically charged solar particles hit the atmosphere. ● [theguardian/science/2014/sep/12/twin-solar-storms-arrive-at-earth]
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