East Coast Super Storm Possible
X Class Flares Also A Concern
This is just a Heads-Up, mainly on the East Coast, who could possibly find themselves being hit by a superstorm next week. Tell your loved ones along the coast!
"Climate Central" is quoting a number of official sources which are concerned that a tropical storm that's about to hit the Bahamas may turn into a Super Storm and track into the East Coast from October 29 onward..
They're using terms like "....think if a hurricane and nor'easter mated, possibly spawning a very rare and powerful hybrid storm, slamming into the Boston-to-Washington corridor early next week, with rain, inland snow, damaging winds, and potential storm surge flooding."
Granted, these scenarios are currently based on modeling what might occur as Tropical Storm "Sandy" travels up the East Coast and hits the jet stream coming down from the Arctic, so there's still a wide margin of speculation involved.
However, the possibility does exist that this storm could be one for the record books - perhaps one of the worst in 200 years, they're saying.
At the same time, X-Class flares from the sun are also a concern for the next few days.
They're the sort that can disrupt satellites, GPS systems, and radio transmissions. Extreme X-Class flares can knock even out all electricity.
NASA reports that the sun emitted a significant X1.8 solar flare on Monday this week from an active region that has been numbered AR 1598.
NASA says harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however -- when intense enough -- they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. This can disrupt radio signals for anywhere from minutes to hours.
The same sunspot produced three strong flares before this one in just the two days since it became visible from Earth's perspective.
NASA says harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however -- when intense enough -- they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. This can disrupt radio signals for anywhere from minutes to hours.
The same sunspot produced three strong flares before this one in just the two days since it became visible from Earth's perspective.
"This means more flares are probably in the offing, and they will become increasingly Earth-directed as the sunspot turns toward our planet in the days ahead," astronomer Tony Phillips wrote on Spaceweather.com.
Prayer usually helps. Preparation remains, as always, a great idea!
Every blessing,
Michael Tummillo
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