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[dougie]

During the early hours of August 1st, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a complex global disturbance on the Earth-facing side of the sun. Most of the sun's northern hemisphere was involved in the event, which included a long-duration C3-class solar flare, a "solar tsunami," and a massive filament eruption. As a result of these blasts, a coronal mass ejection (CME) is heading toward Earth. High-latitude geomagnetic storms and auroras are possible when the cloud arrives a few days hence. Anyone have any idea what this portends for the markets? I used to think it meant down hard...

[uburack]

News source please. Nothing on their website? SDO website

[jonbear]

http://spaceweather.com/

-snippet from front page of SpaceWeather.com-

"BIG EVENTS ON THE SUN: This morning around 0855 UT, Earth orbiting satellites detected a C3-class solar flare. The origin of the blast was sunspot 1092. At about the same time, an enormous magnetic filament stretching across the sun's northern hemisphere erupted. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the action:"


"The timing of these events suggest they are connected, and a review of SDO movies strengthens that conclusion. Despite the ~400,000 km distance between them, the sunspot and filament seem to erupt together; they are probably connected by long-range magnetic fields. In this movie (171 Å), a shadowy shock wave (a "solar tsunami") can be seen emerging from the flare site and rippling across the northern hemisphere into the filament's eruption zone. That may have helped propel the filament into space."

"In short, we have just witnessed a complex global eruption involving almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun."

"A coronal mass ejection (CME) produced by the event is heading directly for Earth: SOHO movie. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when it arrives on or about August 3rd."

[goldswinger]

http://spaceweather.com/

-snippet from front page of SpaceWeather.com-

"BIG EVENTS ON THE SUN: This morning around 0855 UT, Earth orbiting satellites detected a C3-class solar flare. The origin of the blast was sunspot 1092. At about the same time, an enormous magnetic filament stretching across the sun's northern hemisphere erupted. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the action:"


"The timing of these events suggest they are connected, and a review of SDO movies strengthens that conclusion. Despite the ~400,000 km distance between them, the sunspot and filament seem to erupt together; they are probably connected by long-range magnetic fields. In this movie (171 Å), a shadowy shock wave (a "solar tsunami") can be seen emerging from the flare site and rippling across the northern hemisphere into the filament's eruption zone. That may have helped propel the filament into space."

"In short, we have just witnessed a complex global eruption involving almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun."

"A coronal mass ejection (CME) produced by the event is heading directly for Earth: SOHO movie. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when it arrives on or about August 3rd."

Solar flares happen all the time, some bigger than others.....with this advance warning , I don't see or hear of any power grids doing anything about it....

GS.

[101001000x]

The storm shows up as a Planetary 18 on Aug 3. The study done by the Atlanta Fed Reserve many years ago (this is from memory) found that Planetary 25 and over caused the stock market to decline (study was on Russell 200 I believe) .

link to storm levels: http://www.swpc.noaa...test/daypre.txt[/b]

link to article on Atlanta Fed study (Google to get actual article): http://mnrtrading.bl...etic-storm.html[/b]

[dougie]

That was what i was remebering: so not powerful enough: thanks

The storm shows up as a Planetary 18 on Aug 3. The study done by the Atlanta Fed Reserve many years ago (this is from memory) found that Planetary 25 and over caused the stock market to decline (study was on Russell 200 I believe) .

link to storm levels: http://www.swpc.noaa...test/daypre.txt[/b]

link to article on Atlanta Fed study (Google to get actual article): http://mnrtrading.bl...etic-storm.html[/b]

[101001000x]

Upgraded to 22 on Weds and 25 on Thurs

[dougie]

Hmm: will be interesting!!!

Upgraded to 22 on Weds and 25 on Thurs

[goldswinger]

[quote name='dougie' date='Aug 2 2010, 01:04 AM' post='537440']
That was what i was remebering: so not powerful enough: thanks

On the other hand it is facing directly to our planet so we are getting a straight punch in the face.....

Last I remember the recent 8 earthquake in Chile occured after a strong CME.

GS.