2012 Solar Storms

Every once and a while I get a nice confirmation about a prediction. In April of 2009, I wrote a blog indicating that I psychically detected an strong upsurge in solar storm activity in March of 2012. We've been in a solar minimum, a lull in sun spot activity, that I said would turn and become a period of really strong CMEs or coronal mass ejections that would come back at us with a real wallop.

Today, The Independent Scientist ran an article saying the same thing. This quote comes from the article written by Steve Conner, the science editor there:

"Do not adjust your sets: solar storms could cause blackouts at Olympics

By Steve Connor, Science Editor

Wednesday, 3 February 2010

ESA/ASA

Solar flares erupting from the surface of the Sun fling billions of tonnes of electrically-charged matter towards the Earth in a solar storm

With terrorist threats, dire transport links and overspent budgets you'd be forgiven for thinking that the 2012 London Olympics had enough problems to worry about. But another nightmare scenario has just been added to the Olympic dream – a communications blackout caused by solar storms.

After a period of unprecedented calm within the massive nuclear furnace that powers the Sun, scientists have detected the signs of a fresh cycle of sunspots that could peak in 2012, just in time for the arrival of the Olympic torch in London.

Over the past two years, fewer sunspots have been recorded than at any time since 1913. But now scientists have detected signs that the next cycle has begun and it could peak in two or three years.

They believe that this peak in the next solar cycle could generate the eruption of vast solar explosions that could fling billions of tonnes of charged particles towards the Earth, causing intense solar storms that could jam the telecommunications satellites and internet links transmitting live Olympic coverage from London.

"The Sun is now waking up. The first significant active regions of a new solar activity cycle are forming. In the last two weeks, we have seen the first major flares of a new cycle," said Professor Richard Harrison, head of space physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.

"The Sun's activity has a strong influence on the Earth. Space weather can affect the whole population. The recipe is right, it's the beginning of a new cycle. The Olympics could be bang in the middle of the next solar maximum which could affect the transmissions of satellites," he added."

To see the entire article, you can visit: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/do-not-adjust-your-sets-solar-storms-could-cause-blackouts-at-olympics-1887630.html

It's nice to have the scientific community confirm one's psychic predictions.