Nasa Warns Of Super Solar Storm 2012 (video)

[Pharaoh]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_TzIUlaQok&feature=related

Nasa says super solar storm coming in 2012. It could knock out all electricity on the planet!




***NEW UPDATE***
NASA has revised their prediction for solar maximum to now occur around mid-May of 2013

edited to add info about the magnetic field

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPLjnqS8UeY&feature=related

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Latest prediction is for the smallest maximum in 100 years

The current prediction for Sunspot Cycle 24 gives a smoothed sunspot number maximum of about 69 in June of 2013. We are currently over two and a half years into Cycle 24. Two consecutive months with average daily sunspot numbers in the 50s has raised the predicted maximum above the 64.2 for the Cycle 14 maximum in 1907. The predicted size would make this the smallest sunspot cycle in over 100 years.

http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml

[Pharaoh]

2. Ramping up

Ramping up
The space weather threat is becoming more dire as our sun ramps up toward its period of solar maximum, predicted for around 2013. Activity on the sun fluctuates on a roughly 11-year cycle, and our star has been relatively dormant for a while. That’s clearly starting to change, though, as evidenced by a class X solar flare – the strongest kind – that erupted from the sun Feb. 14.

http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/02/20/experts-warn-u-s-must-take-space-storms-seriously/

A severe solar storm has the potential to take down telecommunications and power grids, and the country needs to work on being better prepared, said NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lubchenco is also the U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere.