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Monday, August 7th, 2006
Stormy Geomagnetic Weather
Early this morning a ‘high-moderate’ geomagnetic storm registered at ‘6’ on a scale from 0 – 9. A geomagnetic storm occurs when charged particles which come from various solar winds. This often comes directly from our Sun in the way of solar flares, CME’s (coronal mass ejections) and coronal holes. But these waves of charged particles can also originate from outside our solar system in the form of GRB’s (gamma ray burst).
Geomagnetic Storm (Kp Index) http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html
GRB’s are short-lived bursts of gamma-ray photons, the most energetic form of light. At least some of them are associated with a special type of supernovae, the explosions marking the deaths of especially massive stars.
Lasting anywhere from a few milliseconds to several minutes, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) shine hundreds of times brighter than a typical supernova and about a million trillion times as bright as the Sun, making them briefly the brightest source of cosmic gamma-ray photons in the observable Universe. GRBs are detected roughly once per day from wholly random directions of the sky.
The exact causal effect to Earth is generally unknown. Since this form of ‘high spectrum’ energy is less dense than say solar flares or CME’s, some researchers speculate it would not be as damaging “weather wise” as Sun induced waves. However, current data suggest it could be far more damaging in the way of “radiation”.
Currently the verdict is out regarding the “Equation” and its contribution to severe weather. I will continue to monitor events and note repeated able outcomes and its related predictability. If you wish to join this research, simple send in any reports your have from your local area of “severe, freak, or unusual” weather events. Send to ectv@earthlink.net.
Equation:
Sunspots => Solar Flares => Magnetic Field Shift => Shifting Ocean and Jet Stream Currents => Extreme Weather and Human Disruption (mitch battros)
Until recently, GRBs were arguably the biggest mystery in high-energy astronomy. They were discovered serendipitously in the late 1960s by U.S. military satellites which were on the look out for Soviet nuclear testing in violation of the atmospheric nuclear test ban treaty. These satellites carried gamma ray detectors since a nuclear explosion produces gamma rays. As recently as the early 1990s, astronomers didn't even know if GRBs originated at the edge of our solar system, in our Milky Way Galaxy or incredibly far away near the edge of the observable Universe. But now a slew of satellite observations, follow-up ground-based observations, and theoretical work have allowed astronomers to link GRBs to supernovae in distant galaxies.
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