{"id":43602,"date":"2021-10-30T14:18:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T18:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=43602"},"modified":"2021-10-30T14:18:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T18:18:13","slug":"amazing-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=43602","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Western Journal<\/a> posted an article today about a solar flare forecasted for this weekend.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

\u201cAuroral activity will be high(++). Weather permitting, highly active auroral displays will be visible overhead from Inuvik, Yellowknife, Rankin and Iqaluit, to Portland OR, Cheyenne, Lincoln, Springfield, and New York City, and visible low on the horizon as far south as Carson City, Oklahoma City, and Raleigh,\u201d according to the University of Alaska at Fairbanks<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The auroras at the poles occur when charged particles from the sun<\/a> interact with Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere, according to Space.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…The same solar flare that will spark the light show in the skies is expected to cause what the NOAA has classified as a strong geomagnetic storm on Saturday and Sunday, according to CNN<\/a>. The storm is rated at a three on a five-point scale.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The impact of the storm could cause voltage irregularities and false alarms on some devices, NOAA warns. High-frequency radio blackouts and loss of radio contact on the side of the Earth facing the sun are also possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A strong solar flare can cause the same type of disruptions that would be caused by an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) attack.<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

\u201cSolar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth\u2019s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however \u2014 when intense enough \u2014 they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel,\u201d NASA wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis flare was classified as an X1-class flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength. An X2 is twice as intense as an X1, an X3 is three times as intense, and so on,\u201d NASA wrote. \u201cThis was the second X-class flare of Solar Cycle 25, which began in Dec. 2019. A new solar cycle comes roughly every 11 years.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The solar flare will allow much of the United States to see the Aurora<\/b> Borealis<\/b> (Northern Lights) at some point during the weekend. I am hoping the Lights will be visible this far south as they are beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Western Journal posted an article today about a solar flare forecasted for this weekend. The article reports: \u201cAuroral activity will be high(++). Weather permitting, highly active auroral displays will be visible overhead from Inuvik, Yellowknife, Rankin and Iqaluit, to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14475,14477,14476,6030,11827],"class_list":["post-43602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aurora-borealis","tag-electromagnetic-pulse-emp-attack","tag-northern-lights","tag-solar-flare","tag-the-western-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43604,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43602\/revisions\/43604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}