Saturday, February 18, 2012

Aurora Whirlpool Overlooked X.yz Flare HD


Many Quebecers, here in Canada who experienced the night of the 1989 solar flare, where the entire Province of Quebec lost power for 9 hours, will always remember how it all began with the ever so slow dimming of lights, the snow outside turning glowing neon pink with a multitude of aurora veils gracing the midnight skies.

This scene repeated itself on February 14-15th 2012, 12:30a.m.

My lights began this slow waning towards darkness while outside the skies were filled with the aurora borealis dancing in our skies. This time our power held and turned back to normal again, but the veils of the northern dance continued.
Since I always check for news from NASA/SDO & SOHO, I hurriedly rechecked if perhaps I had missed an update. I hadn't, and found it odd that all the instruments observing our sun 24/7 had also missed a possible X.yz class flare.
Could the instruments have missed an X.yz class flare? Probably not but it is possible that the human eye checking the images the instruments send got missed. So I went back as far as February 9th 2012. This being the last notification from SDO with no new update. But Heliophysics (SOHO and LASCO) showed and active sun leading up to February 14-15, 2012.

Scientists were puzzled over the auroral displays and yet there were no CME data to be had.
http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=17&month=02&year=2012


Wish you all a very enjoyable weekend.

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