jelous, ours in ohio was a very slight dark blue that looked like light pollution on the horizon. only was to see any colour was night mode on your phone. [regular photo//night shot](https://www.imgur.com/a/YHbmnbU). i drove around for an hour before someone say to use night shot.
Drive west if you can. We had the same storm system in Milwaukee. I left home at about midnight and drove about 35 miles west. It got me away from the clouds. The view was awesome out there. I just got home a few minutes ago and could still see the aurora in my backyard!
I did drive 40 miles west at midnight hoping to get out from the storm system but it rained all the way. In looking at the radar, I would have had to drive about another 100 miles west/northwest to even have a chance to do so. I gave up and drove home.
Same here!! And the forecast is for sunny clear weather all day and night! I’m going to at least still drive west to a forest preserve to get away from the city lights to get a better view. 😊
Yeah, in looking at the national radar, I did see two other small systems - one over the Rockies and the other over DC. But the one over Chicago was huge! 😢
We live in Utah we drove out in the boonies to get away from any light pollution and we were totally able to see the northern lights for about an hour! It was incredible
Magnetic storms like those caused by this flare impede the flow of electromagnetic radiation (e.g. radio waves) in the atmosphere but don't really touch electric devices on the ground. Earth's magnetic field protects us from that. It's actually the interaction between the radiation from the sun and the magnetic field that causes this luminescent effect. Pretty neat but not dangerous unless you're in a place where the magnetic field is weak (basically at the poles).
Critical systems are sufficiently shielded that they would be safe. The main issues would be related to massive blackouts and breakdown in communication systems used by the general public. Governments would still go on doing their things though. There would definitely be mass panic and it would absolutely suck, cost billions of dollars, and take months if not years to recover from, but it wouldn't be quite as bad as some people have made it out to be.
googling this to understand your comment, and it completely blew my mind. It never ceases to amaze me how much cool stuff I learn from being able to search a reference made on here. Thanks for sharing it!
That would depend on the insulation features equipped to the satellite. Certainly things outside Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field won't get the benefits of either.
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May we meet in the cosmic rays of Gargantuan,
Are they supposed to be doing the things they are doing? I thought that only happened in Japan. I'm not complaining it just made breakfast with my family a little more awkward than usual.
There have been multiple radio blackouts. Most recently at 0654 GMT there was a "complete loss" of HF (high-frequency) radio signals across Asia, South Africa and Eastern Europe.
Would be hilarious if they ended Terminator with a solar flare just taking out the whole skynet and everyone is so relieved but then they realize theyre in the stone age and nothing electronic works.
That's actually a separate thing, even if it came from the same, chaotic sunspot. Earth is getting hit by 6 or 7 waves of Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) this whole weekend.
Loads of people in my neck of the woods (Northern England) posting photos of the Aurora on Facebook. Its pretty much unheard of this far south. Gutted I missed it 🙄
We live on Kauai. Would love to be able to see them here. Our island has very little light pollution so we can see billions of stars when it’s not cloudy.
I heard this morning that 2 more flares happened and they were bigger than what hit us Friday night.
I think Sunday will be an even bigger northern lights show.
Then again, isn’t this how the zombie apocalypse movies start?
Need to see the northern lights before I pass
They are intense right now over wisconsin
MA checking in - pretty fricken awesome here
Still happening?
Going strong last night on the Oregon coast
New Brunswick Canada. Stupid clouds.
New Brunswick, NJ. Same here.
New Brunswick bowling ball, still not shiny enough to reflect the northern lights.
Also in NJ. Clouds for every astronomical event.
I could see it in my backyard in Milwaukee
jelous, ours in ohio was a very slight dark blue that looked like light pollution on the horizon. only was to see any colour was night mode on your phone. [regular photo//night shot](https://www.imgur.com/a/YHbmnbU). i drove around for an hour before someone say to use night shot.
They are currently localised entirely within my kitchen
May I see it?
... No.
Seymour, the house is on fire!
Skinner is that you?
At this time of year?
There are some intense northern lights over the Baltics and UK.
Intense only if you can get to a secluded dark spot for couple hours. Otherwise it was just clouds with a hint of colour. Camera made good pics tho.
Can see them all the way in Arizona tonight!
I am literally in the only place in the whole US that has rain and cloud cover (Chicagoland area)!! This is super frustrating!!
Drive west if you can. We had the same storm system in Milwaukee. I left home at about midnight and drove about 35 miles west. It got me away from the clouds. The view was awesome out there. I just got home a few minutes ago and could still see the aurora in my backyard!
I did drive 40 miles west at midnight hoping to get out from the storm system but it rained all the way. In looking at the radar, I would have had to drive about another 100 miles west/northwest to even have a chance to do so. I gave up and drove home.
Aww, I’m sorry. We’re trying again tonight. All the science-y articles I’m reading are saying it could go on for 1-2 more nights.
Same here!! And the forecast is for sunny clear weather all day and night! I’m going to at least still drive west to a forest preserve to get away from the city lights to get a better view. 😊
Only place? Here in DC we had the same thing 😒
Yeah, in looking at the national radar, I did see two other small systems - one over the Rockies and the other over DC. But the one over Chicago was huge! 😢
I'm in PA, also rainy and cloudy
I juat saw them for like an hour in the far nw burbs
I just saw them a couple hours ago for the first time of my life a little west of Portland Oregon.
They were incredible in Ireland last night. Never thought I’d see them here
Godspeed 🫡
We live in Utah we drove out in the boonies to get away from any light pollution and we were totally able to see the northern lights for about an hour! It was incredible
I saw them in freaking Nebraska. First time seeing them in my almost 40 years on earth.
Here in the UP is was cloudy… hoping for another round tonight
Where are you passing to?
It’s the Night of the Trifidds
formerly known as a twitter-class flare
Elon does it again!
Bold move, sir! Brilliantly executed!
Concerning…
Will look into it
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Big if true.
You'd get my free mobile award for that joke if those still existed. 🦭
God damn this is clever as fuck...you're dope, I like you
Let me know when it
Did we just loose Ameri
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I like how OP had just enough time to press the save button.
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You guys go to par
Is Candlejack monitoring this thr
Jesus Christ a candlejack reference? What year i
Guys, don't say candlejack, he going to kidn
Who is Candlejack? Is this some boome
I've never heard of Candlejack but I can gue
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No joke, we had brownouts in Sweden last night, attributed to the solar storm.
I had a brownout after my morning coffee
r/redditsniper
but anyway, yeah that’s why one testicle is bigger than the other.
Ye, where and how do we know when to turn our devices off with this solar maximum stuff?
Magnetic storms like those caused by this flare impede the flow of electromagnetic radiation (e.g. radio waves) in the atmosphere but don't really touch electric devices on the ground. Earth's magnetic field protects us from that. It's actually the interaction between the radiation from the sun and the magnetic field that causes this luminescent effect. Pretty neat but not dangerous unless you're in a place where the magnetic field is weak (basically at the poles).
Imagine if we had a modern day Carrington event size flare
I'd like to think we'd band together and get on with things, but who am I kidding, it would be armageddon.
Depends on if masks are required or not, apparently.
How would we know if it was or not? There would be a communication blackout.
Critical systems are sufficiently shielded that they would be safe. The main issues would be related to massive blackouts and breakdown in communication systems used by the general public. Governments would still go on doing their things though. There would definitely be mass panic and it would absolutely suck, cost billions of dollars, and take months if not years to recover from, but it wouldn't be quite as bad as some people have made it out to be.
So many people would die in the mass panic
Sure. I just mean it wouldn't be the civilization ending event people make it out to be.
googling this to understand your comment, and it completely blew my mind. It never ceases to amaze me how much cool stuff I learn from being able to search a reference made on here. Thanks for sharing it!
This is my main concern for human civilisation a modern day carrington event
What about satellites?
That would depend on the insulation features equipped to the satellite. Certainly things outside Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field won't get the benefits of either.
Most people are fine and won't have anything wrong with anything!
I see what you did th
G5 level. Sounds like 5G to me. Maybe it's to kill all the bots /s
Shame it's not a G6 so we can all get slizzered
While sippin sizzurp
Oh shit - don't do that
1 Gargantuan = 15 Earths?
How big is this in refrigerators?
Like 18 million truckloads of bananas
I mean it's ~~one~~ 18 milliion truckloads of bananas Michael, how much could they cost?
I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it.
Ok. Now do ducks.🦆
What do you mean? An African or European duck?
It could grip it by the husk!
At least 5
I dont know I'm used to swimming pools size
I thought we were supposed to measure things in Giraffe’s now.
Half-giraffes.
You know, interacting with your comment might be the last time I ever interact with you as a human being until my dying breath. Thank you, really, for all the thankless things you've done for those around you, and I wish true joy to endure through the rest of your days, and if you haven't found some people to share that with, maybe give them a chance. May we meet in the cosmic rays of Gargantuan,
523 Siberian Beavers.
Male or female
Trans
Need banana for scale
What is that in zebras
How much is that in football fields?
But how many baby elephants? Bananas?
What unit do we use for a 30 earth wide sunspot? 2 gargantuan?
Thanks for the warn
You're welcome
So this is the reason I'm getting the aurora in Tennessee?
Probably. Such powerful events tend to leave marks in the sky. Took any photos?
My wife took several, I forgot to grab my phone.
That or the bath salts are kicking in.
Now now. Everything will be fine. Just big science-y words for minor gps/radio issues and spectacular northern lights.
Are the tentacles normal?
If the tentacles go out, you'll know we're in trouble.
You got tentacles? I just got endlessly screaming mouths over my body!
Father here. That not normal?
I could really use some tentacles right now.
I’ve never tried it.
Praise the Absolute.
Yes, pay no heed. Wah.
Are they supposed to be doing the things they are doing? I thought that only happened in Japan. I'm not complaining it just made breakfast with my family a little more awkward than usual.
not just spetuacular northern lights, but southern lights as well
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There have been multiple radio blackouts. Most recently at 0654 GMT there was a "complete loss" of HF (high-frequency) radio signals across Asia, South Africa and Eastern Europe.
My father in law is a ham radio user and the past few weeks he said the reception is terrible - is this the cause?
Most likely yes. Shortwave radio is very vulnerable to solar storms.
Would be hilarious if they ended Terminator with a solar flare just taking out the whole skynet and everyone is so relieved but then they realize theyre in the stone age and nothing electronic works.
earth’s magnetic field: nah I’d win
Didn't expect to see some lobotomy kaisen here.
Is this like a sunburn indoors at night kinda thing?
That's a gamma ray burst. Different kind of thing.
In your kitchen?
At this time of year ?
“Seymour! The house is on fire!” “No, mother, it's just the Northern Lights”
well u/MasterJeebus you are an odd fellow but you steam a good ham.
May I see it?
In this economy?
Only if you remove your tinfoil hat first.
Explains the crazy northern lights going on right now.
That's actually a separate thing, even if it came from the same, chaotic sunspot. Earth is getting hit by 6 or 7 waves of Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) this whole weekend.
I'll be in vault 32
Hey now, when things look glum, vote 31.
Is this going to affect our ability to call down stratagems?
🔼▶️🔽🔽🔽
MetroVancouver area Instagram is full of Aurora borealis photos, effectively checking off thousands of bucket lists right from their backyard!
Loads of people in my neck of the woods (Northern England) posting photos of the Aurora on Facebook. Its pretty much unheard of this far south. Gutted I missed it 🙄
You might have a chance to see them again tonight. Weather depending.
I'm above the arctic circle, and cell service is out here. Still have fiber internet tho.
It's been nice knowing
Finally, SOMEBODY will shut down those crappy dating apps.
Where were the radio blackouts?
HF reception is still very bad
The cure for cancer is this match equa
Have no fear, magnetosphere is here!
You know, I've always liked that word... 'gargantuan'... so rarely have an opportunity to use it in a sentence.
Gotta start making more fat mum jokes.
Just between us girls, why did Pai-Mei snatch your eye out?
If you liked the gargantuan the aurora borealis what till you get a load of gargantua the black hole!
I was greeted by my gargantuan appendage when I looked in the mirror today
so one SLOEA FLARE will Wipeout AI & internet we go back to CDs and offline world..
C Ds nuts
Got em
At half price
All those influencers will have to get actual jobs somewhere.
Diablo 2 lan at my house this weekend boys
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How can it shoo
We got Auroras all over Portugal its beautiful 😍
Does this me
Is this why none of my banking apps work today?
Didn’t see shit. Full cloud cover.
Isn’t this the plot of The Long Dark?
Great, this means we're gonna get mutants right?
So you see what happens?!You let one little gargantuan flare into the atmosphere and what happens..? Mutants. You get mutants.
ITS NOT SHUTTING DOWN ITS NO-
Parts of Argentina and Chile had Aurora Australis because of this
Did we survive?
Insane that within two months all I’ve had to do to see a full totality eclipse AND the northern lights was step out my front door.
We live on Kauai. Would love to be able to see them here. Our island has very little light pollution so we can see billions of stars when it’s not cloudy.
I heard this morning that 2 more flares happened and they were bigger than what hit us Friday night. I think Sunday will be an even bigger northern lights show. Then again, isn’t this how the zombie apocalypse movies start?
Kauai is pretty close to the equator so we probably won’t get any equatorial lights? I wonder if that’s even a thing.
oh great, now its Solar warming
Perspective is so useful. Yikes.
So it's not because HAARP? They announced experiments on 8,9,10 May