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  1. BossaNova
    I haven't seen anything sensationalist thus far. My comments were about "the big one" which this is no where near. Definitely going outside for a looksie after dark though.
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    You're not alone. Unplug things? Plan on the power being out? That New Yorker story I mentioned above is called "Starburst". If we get a top end G5/Carrington event, no one seems to know how to prepare for that level solar storm or what it will do because we haven't had one in a hundred years. It suggested the possibility of the grid being down, worst case, for 2+ years (transformers are mostly custom built and not in the USA).
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    https://www.earth.com/news/noaa-issues-severe-geomagnetic-storm-watch-first-time-since-2005/ This article has since been updated (on 5/10) and looks like they will continue to do daily updates until the event is over.
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    Seems like as good a place to post this as any but recently read a story by Kathryn Schultz in the New Yorker (4-mar-24) on space weather (the sun) and more specifically solar storms and the potential for disastrous consequences of a G5/Carrington event on the electrical grid, communications, etc. Sobering read. I thought I recognized the name and Schultz wrote a similar story on the next big earthquake to come (and potential consequences) in the Pacific NW back in 2015 in the same magazine. Good stuff.
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    Globe says as of 7:30am Central Maine Power reporting 173,000 customers w/o power, 100,000 in New Hampshire and 13,000 in Mass.
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    Winds howling all night and still are. 34 degrees, less than an inch of sleet/snow on the ground with sleet/rain coming down. Power's still on so that's good.
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    Is the center of all this out over Lake Michigan? Regardless, system extends (or at least appears to) from the Gulf of Mexico to Hudson Bay. Edit (should have done my homework first) - from BOX/Norton: A strong upper level closed low continues to drop from the Great Lakes and moves east. This closed low will provide the support to rapidly intensify a surface low pressure system over SNE. One more edit - thus far, looks a lot like the graphics MJ posted to kick off the thread.
  8. BossaNova
    Keeping with the wind threat theme, BOX:
  9. BossaNova
    I remember it well - we got 30" from that. 2 days later we left for a week in California and when we returned it was all gone. Looks eerily similar but the theme of this winter has been too much warm with most of the storms - we shall see.
  10. BossaNova
    Norton has taken notice as well:
  11. BossaNova
    Was wondering how things were going out your way. In between us on the radar it looked like sleet/freezing rain all day long but have not seen or heard any reports of major problems (which doesn't mean there weren't any). Globe story talked about MA/NH/VT rain/snow but no mention of Maine or the 150k w/o power that MJ mentioned above. Precip total from Norton for CT/MA/RI. Looks like Providence near the top with 4"+ of rain.
  12. BossaNova
    Rain, rain, rain in these parts (check out RI). Best of luck to those in the forecast snow zone. Guessing it's going to be a lot of the heavy, wet variety?
  13. BossaNova
    Less than .5" down this way. Windy, as forecast above.
  14. BossaNova
    Norton agrees - Up to 30 units of omega (!! no idea what that means)
  15. BossaNova
    Major bust up this way. Yesterday we were under a winter storm warning with 10-16" of heavy wet snow forecast. Instead we got maybe an inch or so of heavy wet snow. Perfect storm - happy for all you snow deprived types cashing in finally (and I spent like 10 minutes cleaning up instead of 2 hours).
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