Severe (G4) geomagnetic storm underway from 3/23 coronal mass ejection

Geomagnetic Storm

Level: G4 – Severe

Effects:

Power systems: Possible widespread voltage control problems and some protective systems will mistakenly trip out key assets from the grid.

Spacecraft operations: May experience surface charging and tracking problems, corrections may be needed for orientation problems.

Other systems: Induced pipeline currents affect preventive measures, HF radio propagation sporadic, satellite navigation degraded for hours, low-frequency radio navigation disrupted, and aurora has been seen as low as Alabama and northern California (typically 45° geomagnetic lat.).

More via the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation

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A “Mysterious Antenna” Emerges In An Empty Chicago Field; Billions Depend On It

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Readers are familiar with the various microwave and laser arrays located at the real New York Stock Exchange in Mahwah, New Jersey, both of which we have written about in the past.

Microwave tower located next to the NYSE in Mahwah, NJ.

This article, however, is not about the familiar antennas off Route 17 in New Jersey. Instead, demonstrating to what lengths the high frequency traders will go for just a few millisecond advantage – which makes in the HFT world makes all the different between billions in profits and losses – Bloomberg reports that a mysterious antenna has emerged in an empty field in Aurora, near Chicago, and a trading fortune depends on it.

Strange? Of course: as BBG’s Brian Louis admits “it was an odd transaction from the outset: $14 million, double the going rate, for a 31-acre plot of flat, undeveloped land just west of Chicago. In the nine months since, the curious use of the space has only added to the intrigue. A single, nondescript pole with two antennas was erected by a row of shrubs. Some supporting equipment was rolled in. That’s it.”

LET’S BAN SOLAR STORMS

Liberal control freaks think they can change the course of nature and our atmosphere through laws, regulations and taxes. It’s beyond laughable, as they can’t predict next week’s weather with their supercomputers and the sun can make all their computer model predictions worthless in an instant. Their true goal is to control us. Maybe they should tax the sun or pass new regulations banning solar storms.

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has captured rare footage of a coronal mass ejection (CME), or eruption of solar material, surging off the sun. CMEs belch huge clouds of superheated particles from the sun’s corona – the wispy, outermost and hottest layer – and can reach speeds exceeding 1 million miles per hour. Read More: http://on.rt.com/uk7xxy