{"id":3413,"date":"2013-07-15T01:02:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T01:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2013-07-15T01:02:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T01:02:51","slug":"space-weather-cataclysms-solar-cycle-letdown-your-space-weather-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3413","title":{"rendered":"Space weather cataclysms + Solar cycle letdown + Your space weather update"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post had an extended article today about the potential havoc that would be\u00a0 unleashed upon our electronic civilization if the earth is hit by a severe solar storm: When space weather attacks! – WashingtonPost.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The auroras of 1859, known as the \u201cCarrington Event,\u201d<\/a> came after the sun unleashed a large coronal mass ejection<\/a>, a burst of charged plasma aimed directly at the Earth. When the particles hit our magnetosphere, they triggered an especially fierce geomagnetic storm that lit up the sky and frazzled communication wires around the world. Telegraphs in Philadelphia were spitting out \u201cfantastical and unreadable messages,\u201d one paper reported, with some systems unusable for hours.<\/p>\n

Today, electric utilities and the insurance industry are grappling with a scary possibility. A solar storm on the scale of that in 1859 would wreak havoc on power grids, pipelines and satellites. In the worst case, it could leave 20 million to 40 million people in the Northeast without power \u2014 possibly for years \u2014 as utilities struggled to replace thousands of fried transformers stretching from Washington to Boston. Chaos and riots might ensue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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So far, though, the current solar cycle max is anticlimax : 2013’s solar maximum could be weakest since the dawn of the space age – io9<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Take a daily glance of the latest images and data of the sun and space weather at the HobbySpace Sun & Space Weather page<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Washington Post had an extended article today about the potential havoc that would be\u00a0 unleashed upon our electronic civilization if the earth is hit by a severe solar storm: When space weather attacks! – WashingtonPost.com The auroras of 1859, known as the \u201cCarrington Event,\u201d came after the sun unleashed a large coronal mass ejection, … Continue reading Space weather cataclysms + Solar cycle letdown + Your space weather update<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-T3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7066,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7066","url_meta":{"origin":3413,"position":0},"title":"Earth barely escaped major solar weather disaster in 2012","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Earth nearly got hit with a huge blast from the sun in July of 2012 that could have knocked out electrical systems for months or longer: Dodging the Trillion-Dollar Bullet - Citizens in Space Observations of an extreme storm in interplanetary space caused by successive coronal mass ejections -Nature Communications","rel":"","context":"In "Solar Science"","block_context":{"text":"Solar Science","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=31"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2766,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2766","url_meta":{"origin":3413,"position":1},"title":"The impact of a super geomagnetic storm could be dramatic","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Earth could be in for a shock, so to speak, if it is hit with a really major geomagnetic storm: The Biggest Threat to the Global Economy Could Come From Outer Space:\u00a0If the sun sneezes, the economy will shatter - Niraj Chokshi\/The Atlantic. 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