Strong Solar Storm Affecting EarthCourtesy of the National Weather Service in Des MoinesA strong solar flare erupted from the sun Sunday evening and continues to affect the earth. The NWS Space Weather Prediction Center is currently monitoring the storm and posting updates to their page and to Facebook. The impacts of this storm are considered minimal and will be relegated to the Earth's poles, where aircraft communications may be degraded along with potential flight rerouting.The eruption, seen in this image below, is the strongest since September 2005.Image is from the NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and shows the solar flare that erupted Sunday evening
In addition to the flare, a Coronal Mass Ejection accompanied the flare. A geomagnetic storm is ...
Posted by Henry Luker
Freezing Rain and Snow Possible Tomorrow MorningNWS Des Moines Web Briefing: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dmx/?n=webbriefingWinter has finally came to North Iowa. After a Winter Storm which canceled schools, and now, a day filled with freezing rain, it has really came to the sense that North Iowa is back into the season that some dread and some worship. And now, another Winter Storm is expected to come later tonight, where the freezing rain will turn into, you guessed it, snow. The National Weather Service has already issued a Winter Weather Advisory for mainly the North half of the state on the impending storm. 2-4 Inches with increasing 25-35 MPH winds will lead to near white out conditions which may cancel ...
Posted Jan 22, 2012 6:11 PM by Henry Luker
