Light Negros better buy some sun screen
Solar flare warning for SA
Article By: Andrea van Wyk
Mon, 07 Mar 2011 2:41
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The Hermanus Space Weather Warning Centre (SWWC) on Sunday said a large solar flare was currently being experienced in South Africa. The solar flare would result in higher radiation levels from the sun.
SWWC’s forecaster Kobus Olckers said people should be careful when they go outside.
"People must wear high sunscreen factor at the moment or preferably go shopping," he said.
A powerful solar flare could overwhelm high-voltage transformers with electrical currents and short-circuit energy grids, with one such event in 1989 disrupting power across the Canadian province of Quebec.
However, solar flares are nothing new, with the first major solar flare being recorded by British astronomer Richard Carrington in 1859.
The earth's magnetic field determines how the radiation is distributed. Once the beam of radiated particles hits the magnetosphere it distributes in a complex pattern. Justin
SAA
Sa Falls into the SAA south atlantic anomaly, This spreads across to south america. There is a weakness in the magnetic field in this area. For more info Google Ringmaster
SAA
Sa Falls into the SAA south atlantic anomaly, This spreads across to south america. There is a weakness in the magnetic field in this area. For more info Google Ringmaster
Malema
Methinks the weakness in the magnetic field has focus in whatever resides in Malema's skull, if anything! Nick
Going Solar
"People must wear high sunscreen factor at the moment or preferably go shopping," he said.
WTF does that mean - go shopping?! The most left-field advice I've ever heard for not getting sunburned... KarenB
http://technology.iafrica.com/science/711810.html
Article By: Andrea van Wyk
Mon, 07 Mar 2011 2:41
Share
More
The Hermanus Space Weather Warning Centre (SWWC) on Sunday said a large solar flare was currently being experienced in South Africa. The solar flare would result in higher radiation levels from the sun.
SWWC’s forecaster Kobus Olckers said people should be careful when they go outside.
"People must wear high sunscreen factor at the moment or preferably go shopping," he said.
A powerful solar flare could overwhelm high-voltage transformers with electrical currents and short-circuit energy grids, with one such event in 1989 disrupting power across the Canadian province of Quebec.
However, solar flares are nothing new, with the first major solar flare being recorded by British astronomer Richard Carrington in 1859.
The earth's magnetic field determines how the radiation is distributed. Once the beam of radiated particles hits the magnetosphere it distributes in a complex pattern. Justin
SAA
Sa Falls into the SAA south atlantic anomaly, This spreads across to south america. There is a weakness in the magnetic field in this area. For more info Google Ringmaster
SAA
Sa Falls into the SAA south atlantic anomaly, This spreads across to south america. There is a weakness in the magnetic field in this area. For more info Google Ringmaster
Malema
Methinks the weakness in the magnetic field has focus in whatever resides in Malema's skull, if anything! Nick
Going Solar
"People must wear high sunscreen factor at the moment or preferably go shopping," he said.
WTF does that mean - go shopping?! The most left-field advice I've ever heard for not getting sunburned... KarenB
http://technology.iafrica.com/science/711810.html
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