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Originally Posted by Jnana
There is exactly one sunspot on the near side of the sun right now:
Current solar images
Because the sun is not very active, the likelihood of CMEs is low. CMEs are more frequent at a solar maximum. The sun is currently at the tail end of a prolonged minimum.
If a CME is not already on the way, it won't arrive here tomorrow:
From: Coronal Mass Ejections
Everybody remember the great disasters caused by the 1997 CME? No? Me either. |
Hi Jana
On your first link it shows the 1024 sunspot...here...
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/latest_eit_171.gif ...looks a bit angry to me although I'm not an expert.
The info here shows it being a bit firey as well!!
here..
SUDDEN SUNSPOT: What a difference 48 hours can make. Only two days ago the sun was blank and calm, displaying the sort of unrelenting quiet we've come to expect from the deepest solar minimum in a century. Then, with startling rapidity, sunspot 1024 burst onto the scene: movie. Unlike other recent "sun-specks", this active region is a full-fledged sunspot group with more than a dozen planet-sized dark cores, crackling with B- and C-class solar flares.
further reading here
http://www.spaceweather.com/
Also the Canadian CME in 89 was'nt exactly a cool breeze....It was a disaster.
Lets just pray and visualize that all is ok ... I am just reporting what I see and read... Lets hope MUDRA is right with her definition.
viking