giant CME's on the way

[cortez]

http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/massive-flaring-on-the-sun-and-double-cmes-headed-to-earth/

[mick silver]

August 4, 2011 – STRONG SOLAR ACTIVITY: For the third day in a row, active sunspot 1261 has unleashed a strong M-class solar flare. The latest blast at 0357 UT on August 4th registered M9.3 on the Richter Scale of Flares, almost crossing the threshold into X-territory (X-flares are the most powerful kind). The number of energetic protons around Earth has jumped nearly 100-fold as a result of this event. Stay tuned for updates. INCOMING CLOUDS: At least two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are now en route to Earth, propelled toward us by eruptions in the magnetic canopy of sunspot 1261 on August 2nd and 3rd. -Space Weather

http://spaceweather.com/images2011/04aug11/hmi200.gif http://spaceweather.com/images2011/04aug11/coronalhole_sdo_200.gif

[cortez]

August
M9.3 Flare on 8/4/2011 @ 03:57 UTC
M6.0 Flare on 8/3/2011 @ 13:48 UTC
M1.7 Flare on 8/3/2011 @ 04:32 UTC
M1.1 Flare on 8/3/2011 @ 03:40 UTC
M1.4 Flare on 8/2/2011 @ 05:19 UTC

first one to be here late Aug. 4th

[osoab]

http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/iSWACygnetStreamer?timestamp=2038-01-23+00%3A44%3A00&window=-1&cygnetId=261

[Dogman]

With the drought going on right now and the power electric load is at max trying to meet cooling demands. With power co's asking users to cut back as much electricity use as they can or the P/C's may have to do rolling blackouts.

It would not take much to bring the grid down in a spectacular way if one of these cme's hits earth just right and is powerful enough.

Just a thought!

[Joe King]

I'd say that they can't get here soon enough.

C'mon massive CME! Woo! Woo! Bring it!

lol

[Eyebone]

These are the strongest predictions I've seen yet on the Space Weather page.

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/warnings_timeline.html