THE SUN TODAY: 24 January 2012 - HUGE GEOMAGNETIC STORM?

WHAT IS HAPPENING ON THE SUN TODAY? (FULL SCREEN!)

HUGE GEOMAGNETIC STORM

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[BEMUSED3256]

In Aust we getting rain,flash flooding,some towns 400mls and more on way,heatwaves 42c+,sudden storms 170kmph recorded,cyclones or big lows both west and east coasts,thats the weather at the moment and just for January alone,whats next?.

[drkstrong]

@BEMUSED3256 Wow! Stay safe. Here in Washington DC it is like spring already. I have had daffodils flowering my garden since before Xmas (usually it feb/march). I have played golf at least once every week this winter which has never happened before. Tornadoes are ripping through the South - again normally a spring phenomenon. Crazy stuff.

[Taakuyaa]

@drkstrong yeah I actually live in Alabama, the strongest tornado that came through the state this week (I think) passed literally with 3 miles of my home. Strange for january to say the least, but then again we havent had any remarkably cold winters for as long as I can remember, would certainly be nice to get some real snow for a change though.

[drkstrong]

@Taakuyaa That's too close for comfort. I hope you have a nice secure and deep basement.

[esplen2t]

here in Canada, it should be like -20 to -40 and its like -5 to +3 some days... so crazzy... we had a + 9 in janauary, the middle of our winter

[drkstrong]

@cbemerine No its criminal. A mission that was supposed to be done "faster, cheaper, and better" which was the NASA watchword when it was being built (the estimated cost of the whole mission was $100M - a target that would have been met if politics had not gotten in the way) has now cost the US tax payer over 4-5 times that much. It has been kept in very expensive cold storage for a deacade and is having to be refurbished to the modern more stringent (=expensive) standards. SIGH.

[cbemerine]

@drkstrong That is great info @drkstrong, thank you. I am so sick and tired of both parties playing politics and doing anything and everything but helping WE THE PEOPLE.

Even Mr. Ford understood that to be successful, his workers needed a high enough salary to afford the cars they were making.

To hold up a mission because someone on the other party had a hand in it and not on its technical merits is awful.

[horustheyoung]

@drkstrong yes thanks ^_^

[kingsrecords]

I thoroughly enjoy your videos! A healthy dose of skepticism is a good thing. We need to do some investigating instead of following this almost tabloid like hype being created by the msm. Kudos! ;)

[drkstrong]

@cbemerine The jet stream does not go hugh enough to affect the magnetosphere. It is in the neutral atmosphere. Aurora occur high in the ionized or semi ionized part of the atmosphere.