{"id":31668,"date":"2011-02-20T16:44:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T16:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/aurora\/"},"modified":"2011-02-20T16:44:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T16:44:02","slug":"aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/aurora.php","title":{"rendered":"Aurora?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/85187_goes15021811.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/85187_goes15021811.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"397\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>The sun today.  Click for larger.  Credit as annotated.<\/p><\/div><p><\/p><p>The sunspot cycle isn&rsquo;t as intense as it was predicted to be but that&rsquo;s not to say there isn&rsquo;t any activity.<\/p><p>Northern and southern latitudes could see displays of the aurora for the next three days especially today.<\/p><p>Today&rsquo;s&nbsp; forecast is for the geomagnetic field to be active and there is a chance for isolated minor storm periods.&nbsp; If we do reach minor storm levels we will see auroral activity.&nbsp; Activity will subside over the following two days.<\/p><p>I did hear some warnings on the tube, yes well you know, end of the world stuff, gah, it gets old.&nbsp; Anyways they did mention power grid and GPS failures.&nbsp; Could those happen?&nbsp; Well sure they could but I&rsquo;d not lose too much sleep over it with this forecast. Now if the forecast is wrong and activity is more intense, well never say never.<\/p><p>The GPS thing is kind of interesting, who knows? I would think chances of untoward consequences surely increase at polar latitudes but at my 43 north and towards the equator, meh, I&rsquo;m not so sure.<\/p><p>If you have clear skies go out and see if you can see the northern or southern lights.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/alerts\/k-index.html\">Check this graph<\/a>, if the top graph shows values of 5 or greater (bar will be red) and if you have clear skies go out and see if you can see the northern or southern lights.&nbsp; If that top graph shows values greater than 7 (bar will be purple) then certainly there is a possibility of communications and power disruptions but you will have a glorious display!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun today. Click for larger. Credit as annotated.The sunspot cycle isn&rsquo;t as intense as it was predicted to be but that&rsquo;s not to say there isn&rsquo;t any activity.Northern and southern latitudes could see displays of the aurora for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/aurora.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}