Just hours after Earth Changes TV posted our article on the two CME's and ten days of M-Class flares, I received an email from NASA <xxxx.x.xxxx.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> asking me to now look at their web site Spaceweather.com. (for all concerned their email address has been kept anonymous). Sure enough, NASA had just posted the occurrence of the two CME's mentioned in my report. We Do Make A Difference!
I believe this to be a sign NASA is listening to those of us who have been suggesting a new method of Public Relations. In my humble estimate, the article below is further indication NASA may be willing to share information BEFORE an event, as opposed to their apparent policy of admittance days after an occurrence (or sometimes not at all). I am very hopeful this new line of communication will continue as events "heat" up. I am convinced it is far better to prepare people over a period of time so we will not be shocked by the events to come. I am thinking NASA may now feel the same way.
Equation:
Sunspots = Solar Flares = Magnetic Shift = Shifting Ocean
and Jet Stream Currents = Extreme Weather
A Twisted Tale of Sunspots...02/29/00
NASA
Two large sunspots near the Sun's central meridian have developed complex magnetic fields. If solar flares erupt from these regions Earth could be in for stormy space weather.
The NOAA Space Environment Center is forecasting a 70% chance of significant M-class solar flares from at least one of the two large sunspots currently visible on the solar disk. Because of their placement on the Sun, like a double-barreled ray gun, these two sunspot groups are likely to produce solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) aimed toward Earth. Stormy space weather could be on the way sometime during the next 72 hours.
Solar flares are the biggest explosions in the solar system. A typical eruption can release the same amount of energy as millions of 100-megaton hydrogen bombs all exploding at the same time. The energy source for solar flares is the Sun's magnetic field. Whenever the magnetic field around a sunspot group becomes twisted and sheared, like a stretched and twisted rubber band, an explosive release of energy could be just around the corner.
Space weather forecasters noticed on February 28, 2000, that
both of th large active regions 8882 and 8891 had developed relatively complicated
"beta-gamma" type magnetic fields. Most sunspots come in pairs with a magnetic
field that looks somewhat like that of a bar magnet. Magnetic lines of force
emerge from one spot (the north pole), loop overhead, and come back down to
the other member of the pair (the south pole).
This is called a bipolar or "beta-type" field. "Beta-gammas" are bipolar sunspot
groups that are so complex that no single, continuous line can be drawn between
spots of opposite polarity. The energy stored in the twisted magnetic field
lines serves as fuel for solar flares and CMEs. Eruptions occur when the fields
rearrange to form a simpler, lower-energy configuration.
Intense M-class and X-class flares can overload electrical power grids and cause blackouts if operators do not take precautions. Satellites can be damaged or even destroyed when their electronics are saturated by charged particles from large flares. A large and famous space storm in 1989 induced electrical currents on the ground that caused a failure in the Hydro-Quebec electric power system. This prevented 6 million people in Canada and the US from having electricity for over 9 hours. The same storm caused the atmosphere to inflate and dragged the NASA's Long Duration Exposure Facility satellite to a lower orbit earlier than expected.
Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
http://www.earthchangesTV.com