Power outages and solar storms, bending magnetosphere.

Here's an interesting one , with regarding the overloading of the Grid just lately, and the amount of energy coming off of the sun, it takes a few days to get here. Theirs a few satellites showing what's been going down over the last few days. Plus some good auroras up in the north and south. If the suns magnetic field is getting whacked, and Coronal holes when we supposed to be going into a Maunder minimum, some thing might be going on with space weather.

Looks like the auroras are dropping pretty far south.

It's too cloudy here in Alberta right now, so I haven't seen any in a week or two.

This ramped up activity is scary enough, especially in light of the worry that we're long overdue for a magnetic pole flip and there have been some signs this is ongoing as well. Both happening in a short period of time would be potentially devastating.

This reminds me of one year as a kid growing up in New Mexico when the aurora was visible way down there. I was playing outside in the front yard and tried to get my parents to come outside and look and they brushed me off as having a too-big imagination. Funny enough, it was all over the news the next day and they missed it!

Very informative video, so thank you!

a reply to: anonentity

The solar wind has been around 750 kilometers a second which is on the high side. youtu.be...

I like these guys who study this stuff. They are actually checking the interactions and determining possible reactions of the earth to the sun's activity. He does not have to follow the rules set by the industry, he can say things that the official people can't, they have to account for everything. I think over the next couple of years this guy's forecasting may be adopted somewhat by the people who study this stuff officially if it does prove to be real. They have the equipment to test this stuff, they just need ideas to persue. But if they scoff at this stuff and do not test things, they are not doing science, they need to look at what he says with open minds and actually do some testing to either verify or deny it. Denial of things by the scientific community because of the lack of official credentials by the observer is a thorn in the butt of science. We need to work together and search for the real way things work. The complete way things work. The scientific community must not automatically deny what people say if it does not fit into their beliefs.

a reply to: anonentity

Is this what caused the power outage in San Francisco a few days ago?

90,000 without power, Financial district shut down, traders were "off line" for 23 minutes

a reply to: FamCore

It is very possible, the pic is over the last couple of days, and I believe the morning news said we have a possibility of ramping back up again today or tomorrow.

a reply to: rickymouse

I think crowd funded science will be the future. I attended a conference during the first part of April, I was amazed at the number of people who are helping to bring this field of study to the forefront. It was amazing being around so many normal but brilliant folks, all with a common goal to pursue the knowledge in the face of mainstream scientific apathy.

a reply to: FamCore



Well it makes you think on what's going to happen when the cash machines don't work and the efpost machines are down, a few people will have a bit of cash, but that wont last long. Mabey the concept of a cashless society is just a bankers wet dream. Think Greece because the end result will be the same. One good Carrington event and we will have real problems.