The storm started Tuesday evening and reached a moderate level late Thursday and rated as minor and goes on a strong level early Friday. The flare is still growing as it speeds outward from the sun. The storm comes after an earlier and weaker solar eruption happened on Sunday. The largest solar flare in five years time sent charged particles speeding towards our planet at 600 miles per second.
This Solar Storm is a natural phenomenon which occurs as a result of a natural rises and falls in the sun’s magnetic activity over an 11-year cycle which will peak on 2013-2014. The regions in the sun that has already erupted can still send more blast, solar storms usually starts with sun spots. At first there is an initial solar flare sub atomic particle that resembles a filament coming out of the sun. And that part is the one usually reaches Earth. Second there is a coronal mass injection that looks like bubble and takes a couple of days to reach the Earth.
This Solar Storm is a natural phenomenon which occurs as a result of a natural rises and falls in the sun’s magnetic activity over an 11-year cycle which will peak on 2013-2014. The regions in the sun that has already erupted can still send more blast, solar storms usually starts with sun spots. At first there is an initial solar flare sub atomic particle that resembles a filament coming out of the sun. And that part is the one usually reaches Earth. Second there is a coronal mass injection that looks like bubble and takes a couple of days to reach the Earth.
It doesn’t affect man directly but our technologies, solar storms have tree way to disrupt the technologies on Earth, first with magnetic, radio and radial emissions. It can also make the Global Positioning System (GPS) less accurate, the storm can also cause communication problems, forces airlines to reroute their flights and added radiation around the North and South Pole. Communication Satellites are affected too and NASA advices to take extra precautions to protect the astronauts on the International Space Station against radiation.
Scientists find out that the storm would be the worst since 2006 and the strongest storm was record in the history way back 1859. The storm orientation can and has been changing; especially in the northern area a massive cloud of charged particles can disrupt utility grids, airline flights, satellite networks and GPS. Astronomers said that the sun had relatively quiet for some time, and this storm, while it is strong, may seem fiercer because the Earth has been lulled by several years of weak solar activity.
PAG-ASA stated that the solar storm was no effect to the country and to the human as what the international agencies said, Dario de la Cruz OIC of PAG-ASA also added that it will not affect us because we are near the equator those areas in higher latitude have greater possibility of being affected by the solar storm, where they could observed northern lights or the aurora borealis from the storms charged particles. The Earth was not also directly hit and our atmosphere is protected but solar particles rarely reached the Earth but the Philippines may also be affected by sudden solar storm.
Instead of thinking of the solar storm the weather bureau urged the public against possible heatstroke as summer is officially in. The country could reach an average temperature as high as 38 degrees Celsius this April and within the first half of May as the La Niña phenomenon is expected to terminate this March.
Scientists find out that the storm would be the worst since 2006 and the strongest storm was record in the history way back 1859. The storm orientation can and has been changing; especially in the northern area a massive cloud of charged particles can disrupt utility grids, airline flights, satellite networks and GPS. Astronomers said that the sun had relatively quiet for some time, and this storm, while it is strong, may seem fiercer because the Earth has been lulled by several years of weak solar activity.
PAG-ASA stated that the solar storm was no effect to the country and to the human as what the international agencies said, Dario de la Cruz OIC of PAG-ASA also added that it will not affect us because we are near the equator those areas in higher latitude have greater possibility of being affected by the solar storm, where they could observed northern lights or the aurora borealis from the storms charged particles. The Earth was not also directly hit and our atmosphere is protected but solar particles rarely reached the Earth but the Philippines may also be affected by sudden solar storm.
Instead of thinking of the solar storm the weather bureau urged the public against possible heatstroke as summer is officially in. The country could reach an average temperature as high as 38 degrees Celsius this April and within the first half of May as the La Niña phenomenon is expected to terminate this March.
