Solar Flares or anything with Solar...2012

OUCH OUCH OUCH!!! BAD BOY HEADED OUT WAY!!!

Solar activity: Major X 5.4 Solar Flare – March 7, 2012
Posted on March 7, 2012


Major X 5.4 Solar Flare!!

Yesterday we had reported X1.1-Class Eruption – M3.3 Solar flare en route to Earth

Today, the second strongest solar flare of Solar Cycle 24 and the Second X-Flare occured from Active Region 11429. This major event measured X 5.4 at 00:24 UTC and triggered a strong R3 Level Radio Blackout. A coronal mass ejection was captured shortly after and is likely to be headed earths way. more information shortly.

The expected CME from March 4 has impacted the earths magnetic field moments ago, causing the Bz component of the IMP to deviated sharply southward to – 18 nT.

Funny, the government is supposedly shutting down the internet on March 8th...lots of things happening this March...


http://www.techrevel.com/no-internet-day-8th-march-2012-fbi-will-shutdown-the-internet-on-march-8

What's the FBI doing with the Internet on March 8?

Kansas City Political Buzz Examiner

If you get a different message, however, you, along with countless others, may lose your Internet connection on March 8 due to DNSChanger viruses, which the FBI began warning people about in November of last year.

DNSChanger viruses have infected millions of computers around the world. The virus prevents computers from navigating the Internet properly and may prevent antivirus software and operating systems from updating, which could leave systems vulnerable to further attacks.

The hackers who created these viruses were arrested in November 2011 in Estonia, and the FBI replaced the hackers' servers with temporary servers hoping that infected machines would be able to continue operating. The temporary servers will be turned off on March 8, 2012, and this will leave infected computers unable to access the Internet.



If your computer is infected, you can reinstall your operating system, research online solutions to the DNSChanger virus, or consult a professional.

Sources:
The short version is that you should visit this website and download the Avira DNS Repair-Tool and run it. After you run the tool, if you get a message that says: "The DNS settings of your system have not been manipulated by the DNSChanger," then you don't have anything to worry about.

If you get a different message, however, you, along with countless others, may lose your Internet connection on March 8 due to DNSChanger viruses, which the FBI began warning people about in November of last year.

FINALLY THE STUPID MEDIA is picking it up and oh my gosh it is TWO X FLARES!! 5.3 AND 1.3!!!:

The sun unleashed one of the biggest flares ever seen during its current activity cycle late Tuesday — an X5.4-class outburst strong enough to trigger a radio blackout. The resulting geomagnetic storm could affect electrical grids, communication links, satellite navigation systems and airline schedules over the next couple of days.

The outburst at 7:24 p.m. ET was followed about an hour later by an X1.3-class blast. Solar flares are rated on a letter-plus-number scale, with X being the most powerful category. Usually the numbers run from 1 to 9, but X-class flares can run higher. The highest reading recorded recently is an X28, observed in 2003.

Joe Kunches, a space scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center, says the double blast made for a "Super Tuesday," in a different sense from the political meaning.

The big question is, what effect will this solar activity have on Earth? The solar blasts threw off waves of electrically charged particles known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. Those waves are now speeding outward, and space-weather forecasters expect them to touch off strong geomagnetic storms when they interact with Earth's magnetic field late Wednesday and early Thursday.

"The most northern states in the 'Lower 48' should have a chance to see the aurora," the prediction center reported on Facebook.

Could something more serious happen? All this activity is already whipping up an S3 solar radiation storm. "Such a storm is mainly a nuisance to satellites, causing occasional reboots of onboard computers and adding noise to imaging systems," SpaceWeather.com's Tony Phillips said.

The coming geomagnetic storm is predicted to reach the G3 level, which could trigger alarms on electrical power systems and create intermittent problems for GPS navigation services. Some airline flights are likely to be rerouted so they don't fly so close to the poles, and problems could arise with communication systems in polar regions. That's the bad news. The good news is that NASA and NOAA have lots of resources in space to monitor solar activity, giving network operators more time to assess and prepare.

Check out NOAA's chart of space weather scales to learn more about what S3, G3 and the other storm desigations mean.

Experts at the Space Weather Prediction Center say the storm generated by the X5.4-class flare is on a trajectory to deliver a glancing blow rather than a direct hit on Earth, but they caution that the sunspot region responsible for the flare, AR1429, "remains potent, and subsequent activity is certainly possible."

For now, chances are that the most noticeable effect for most people will be an upswing in the number of fantastic pictures of the northern lights. AR1429 has been acting up over the past few days, and SpaceWeather.com has been adding plenty of stunners to its aurora gallery. If you get a nice snapshot, please consider sharing it with us via the Cosmic Log Facebook page or msnbc.com's FirstPerson in-box.

Some really cool pic's here:

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/07/10596987-solar-blast-could-have-earthly-impact?chromedomain=cosmiclog