Category: Weather

Sun is split in two: A massive coronal hole has opened up on our Sun and is shooting solar wind directly towards Earth

 

Tuesday, 14 August 2018

Photo Credit SDO
A massive long coronal hole has opened up on our Sun and is shooting solar wind directly towards Earth at incredible speeds expected to reach 700 km/second.
According to Spaceweather.com NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory photographed the fissure on Aug. 13th pointing directly at Earth: This is a “coronal hole”–a region where the sun’s magnetic field opens up and allows a gaseous material to escape.
Solar wind emerging from the hole is expected to reach Earth on Aug. 16th and 17th.
The incoming stream of solar wind may be preceded by a CIR (co-rotating interaction region).
CIRs are transition zones between slow- and fast-moving solar wind.
They often contain shock-like density gradients and strong magnetic fields that do a good job sparking auroras
Meanwhile,
SOLAR MINIMUM CONDITIONS ARE IN EFFECT: The sun has been without sunspots for 45 of the past 48 days.
To find a similar stretch of blank suns, you have to go back to 2009 when the sun was experiencing the deepest solar minimum in a century.
Some experts are linking this Solar Minimum to another mini ice age but after the summer we are having I wouldn’t hold your breath.

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Arctic lake mysteriously disappears on Novaya Zemlya, Russia, baffling geologists and scientists on expedition

 

editor’s note:  wow!  so much is just literally fading away….disappearing. this lake ~ 3 kilometer’s long (almost 2 miles).  all is well.  just part of the transition.

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This is just incredible! An entire lake has disappeared on the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean in northern Russia as reported by researchers from the project “The Open Ocean: Archipelagos of the Arctic”. The expedition was sent in this remote area in an attempt to survey Lake Usacheva, but stumbled upon an empty reservoir with its bottom scarred by cracks and fissures.

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Researchers report of their Facebook Page:

“We are not talking here about a small lake near the sea shore, which, for example, can break through the channel and drain into the sea, but about the large and deep lake Usacheva, that is at least 3 kilometers long, and a few kilometers distant from the sea. […] The guys walked on the dried bottom of the lake for more than one and a half kilometers, and as shown in the photographs, it’s a continuous clay desert, covered with a grid of cracks and fissures from erosion […] ”

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