{"id":11700,"date":"2021-10-31T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11700"},"modified":"2021-11-03T16:07:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T23:07:44","slug":"halloween-flare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/31\/halloween-flare\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Flare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/news\/3957750\/halloween-solar-flare-headed-earth-power-grid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Sun<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Halloween solar flare headed for Earth could trigger Northern Lights this weekend \u2013 and disrupt power grid<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/author\/harry-pettit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harry Pettit<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/author\/charlotte-edwards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Charlotte Edwards<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/SDO_X1_Flare_10-28_304-171Blend.jpeg\" alt=\"An X1.0 class solar flare flashes in the lower center of the Sun on October 28, 2021\"\/><figcaption><em>3An X1.0 class solar flare flashes in the lower center of the Sun on October 28, 2021 Credit: Nasa<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE SUN launched a massive solar flare yesterday that&#8217;s headed in Earth&#8217;s direction \u2013 the strongest storm seen in the current weather cycl<\/strong>e.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The volley of radiation may trigger the northern lights if it collides with our atmosphere, and could cause major issues for power grids, experts suggest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which tracks the Sun&#8217;s activity, captured an image of the event at 11:35 a.m. EST (4:35 p.m. BST) on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has already caused a temporary, but strong, radio blackout in parts of South America, according to the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flare is the result of a coronal mass ejection (CME) \u2013 a huge expulsion\u00a0of plasma from the Sun&#8217;s outer layer, called the corona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/news\/3957750\/halloween-solar-flare-headed-earth-power-grid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Sun<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Sun Halloween solar flare headed for Earth could trigger Northern Lights this weekend \u2013 and disrupt power grid by Harry Pettit Charlotte Edwards THE SUN launched a massive solar flare yesterday that&#8217;s headed in Earth&#8217;s direction \u2013 the strongest storm seen in the current weather cycle. The volley of radiation may trigger the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}