Current solar flare activity

[Kentactic]

Watch "M3,1 Class Solar Flare - Two Fast Growing Earthside Sunspots - SUBSIDING RADIATION STORM" on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mKevjf_16Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[sledge]

That is the one from the 31st I believe.  On the first there was a m9.9.  It's interesting that the last four flares have all been increasing in intensity with each new flare.

[JohnyMac]

Yup, we are doomed!   

I wonder what the size of the solar flare was that hit us in 1859.

Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases giving telegraph operators electric shocks.[7] Telegraph pylons threw sparks.[8] Some telegraph systems continued to send and receive messages despite having been disconnected from their power supplies...

...In June 2013, a joint venture from researchers at Lloyd's of London and Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) in the United States used data from the Carrington Event to estimate the current cost of a similar event to the world economy at $2.6 trillion (£1.67tr).

[sledge]

Yup, we are doomed!   

Nope,  I doubt doooomed.  We'll all be just a little more tanned. 

[JohnyMac]

Yupper Sledge plus noodies computer will work