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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Strong Geomagnetic Storm Creating Northern Lights As Far South As Colorado.


STRONG CME IMPACT: As predicted, a coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetic field at 0600 UT on March 17th. The impact lifted the solar wind speed from 300 km/s to 700 km/s and sparked a moderately strong (Kp=6) geomagnetic storm. Northern Lights spilled across the Canadian border into the United States as far south as Colorado:



"Just after 4 am local time, the skies turned green and red behind the twin stone monoliths of Rabbit Ears Peak near Steamboat Springs, Colorado," reports photographer and astronomy professsor Jimmy Westlake.

In the contiguous United States, auroras also appeared above New York, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Michigan and the Dakotas. Scan the realtime photo gallery and count the states.

The show's not over. Geomagnetic storming is underway as Earth passes through the wake of the CME. High-latitude sky watchers should remain alert for auroras

Auroras 
Taken by John Welling on March 17, 2013 @ Ashland,Wi.

Colorado Aurora
Taken by Jimmy Westlake on March 17, 2013 @ Rabbit Ears Pass near Steamboat Springs, Colorado


Aurora
Taken by Robert Farrimond on March 17, 2013 @ Vantage, Washington State

Aurora
Taken by Paul Robinson on March 17, 2013 @ 6 miles north of Saratoga, WY


Solar wind
speed: 604.5 km/sec
density: 2.2 protons/cm3
explanation | more dataUpdated: Today at 0156 UT

3-day Estimated Planetary K-index graph


Geomagnetic Storm Forecasts
The geomagnetic storm probabilities are the estimated chances of at least one 3-hour K index, at the indicated level, for each of the next 3 days.

Active: K = 4.
Minor storm: K = 5.
Major or Severe storm: K > 6.
The "K index" is a 3-hourly quasi-logarithmic local index of geomagnetic activity relative to an assumed quiet-day curve for the recording site. Range is from 0 to 9. The K index measures the deviation of the most disturbed horizontal component of the magnetic field.




SWPC ACE RTSW MAG 24-hour Updating Plot


Coronal Holes: 16 Mar 13
Solar wind flowing from this coronal hole could reach Earth on March 19-20. Credit: SDO/AIA.




main source: http://www.spaceweather.com


Saturday, October 6, 2012

Fungal Meningitis Outbreak. 7 Dead. 64 Sick.

Rare Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Rises; 7 Dead, 64 Sick
PHOTO: The meningitis death toll has risen to seven, while the outbreak has spread to 64 people, according to the CDC.



By 
 (@katiemoisse) and  (@alyssanewcomb)



A rare fungal meningitis that has been linked to spinal steroid injections has killed seven people and sickened 64 across nine states, health officials said today.
The latest cases were confirmed in Minnesota and Ohio, according to figures posted on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website.
The other states with reported cases are Tennessee, Florida, North Carolina, Indiana, Michigan, Virginia and Maryland.
The outbreak of aspergillus meningitis has been linked to spinal steroid injections, a common treatment for back pain. A sealed vial of the steroid, called methylprednisolone acetate, was found to contain fungus, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
"FDA is in the process of further identifying the fungal contaminate," said Dr. Ilisa Bernstein, acting director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Office of Compliance. "Our investigation into the source of this outbreak is still ongoing."
The steroid came from the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass., a specialty pharmacy that has recalled three lots of the drug and shut down operations. Calls to the pharmacy were not immediately returned and their website is down.
Roughly 75 clinics in 23 states that received the recalled lots have been instructed to notify all affected patients.
"If patients are concerned, they should contact their physician to find out if they received a medicine from one of these lots," said Dr. Benjamin Park of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, adding that most of the cases occurred in older adults who were healthy aside from back pain.
Meningitis affects the membranous lining of the brain and spinal cord. Early symptoms of fungal meningitis, such as headache, fever, dizziness, nausea and slurred speech, are subtler than those of bacterial meningitis and can take nearly a month to appear. Left untreated, the inflammatory disease can cause permanent neurological damage and death.
"Fungal meningitis in general is rare. But aspergillus meningitis -- the kind we're talking about here -- is super rare and very serious," said Dr. William Schaffner, president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and chairman of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. "There's no such thing as mild aspergillus meningitis."
The disease is diagnosed with a lumbar puncture, which draws cerebrospinal fluid from the spine that can be inspected for signs of the disease. Once detected, it can be treated with high doses of intravenous antifungal medications.
"Treatment could be prolonged, possibly on the order of months," said Park, adding that the IV treatment would require a hospital stay.
Unlike bacterial and viral meningitis, fungal meningitis is not transmitted from person to person and only people who received the steroid injections are thought to be at risk.
The FDA has, however, advised health providers to stop using any product made by the New England Compounding Center during the investigation.

CDC: Death toll in rare fungal meningitis outbreak linked to steroid injections rises to 7

ATLANTA — Health officials say the death toll in a rare fungal meningitis outbreak across several states has risen to seven.
In updated figures posted to its website Saturday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the outbreak has spread to more than 60 people across nine states.
Minnesota and Ohio are the two latest states to report confirmed cases linked to a steroid produced by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts. The steroid has been recalled, and health officials have been scrambling to notify anyone who may have been injected with it.
The New England Compounding Center has said it is cooperating with health investigators to determine the source of the infections.

    Sunday, February 19, 2012

    Aurora Watch. Over The U.S.A.!

    AURORAS OVER THE USA: A solar wind stream hit Earth's magnetic field during the waning hours of Saturday, Feb. 18th. Although the stream was expected, the bright auroras it produced were not. Northern Lights spilled across the Canadian border into several US states including Wisconsin, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota:
    Travis Novitsky took this picture from Grand Portage, MN. "My girlfriend and I were just settling in to watch a movie when the auroras made a surprise appearance," he says. "A quick look out the back door of my house revealed that, yes indeed, the lights were out! For the next hour and a half we were treated to a green glow peppered with dancing curtains of green, purple and red."

    In Nebraska--yes, Nebraska--"I saw auroras on and off for approximately 2 hours from around 9pm to 11pm local time," reports Chris Allington of Crofton, NE. "There was a brief spell where color was visible to the eye with rays and bands." Allington stitched together a series of 20s exposures to create this movie.
    At the height of the display, researchers at the Poker Flats Research Range outside of Fairbanks, Alaska, launched a suborbital rocket to investigate how auroras affect GPS systems. Several photographers in the area caught the rocket flying into the Northern Lights. 

    This episode might have been amplified by the action of a co-rotating interaction region or "CIR." CIRs are transition zones between fast and slow solar wind streams. Solar wind plasma piles up in these regions, producing density gradients and shock waves that do a good job of sparking auroras. Local solar wind data suggest that Earth moved through a CIR around 1500 UT on Feb. 18th.

    Source: SpaceWeather

    Sunday, September 11, 2011

    Geomagnetic Storms Cause Auroras In Washington, Wisconsin, Vermont, Montana, Maine, Minnesota, North Dakota.

    GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY CONTINUES: Earth's magnetic field is still reverberating from the impact of a CME on Sept. 9th with intermittant geomagnetic storms in progress around both poles. High-latitude sky watchers should remain alert for auroras mingling with the light of the waxing full Moon. Aurora alerts: text, voice.
    On Sept. 9th and 10th, Northern Lights were spotted in the United States as far south as Washington, Wisconsin, Vermont, Montana, Maine, Minnesota and North Dakota. In Michigan, it was like a day at the beach:
    Shawn Malone took the picture from the shores of Lake Superior near the city of Marquete. "Auroras appeared right after dusk, barely visible because of the moon," he says. "Gradually the fog moved in, creating a surreal landscape--the aurora and a fogbow!"

    3-day Solar Xray Flux graph 

    3-day Satellite Environment graph and image map. link to Proton Plotlink to Electron Plotlink to GOES Mag. Plotlink to Kp Plot
    Boulder K plot 

    Friday, May 13, 2011

    Cloud Formations, Comet Elenin, Radiation



    MAMMATUS OVER MINNESOTA: On May 10th, a severe storm captured national attention when it dumped golf-ball-sized hail on a Minnesota Twins baseball game. "I missed the hail," reports John Rogers of New Hope, Minnesota, "but I got a nice view of the clouds that formed after the storm passed." He snapped this picture in waning twilight at 8:30 pm local time:
    These are mammatus clouds. Named for their resemblance to a cow's underbelly, they sometimes appear at the end of severe thunderstorms when the thundercloud is breaking up. Researchers have called them an "intriguing enigma," because no one knows exactly how and why they form. The clouds are fairly common but often go unnoticed because potential observers have been chased indoors by the rain. If you are one of them, dash outside when the downpour stops; you could witness a beautiful mystery in the sky.
    more images: from John A. Ey III of Tucson, AZ


    NASA and its lies ? ELENIN 21/May/2011 - 21/Oct/2011, page 1
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    ATS Members have flagged this thread 7 times
    For starters I'm not entirely sure whats going to happen 21/5/11 through to the 21/10/11 and I'm not entirely confident with what the governments telling us about the "comet" ELENIN. Maybe its not a comet at all ? a brown dwarf ? an alien craft ? I'm sure you have all heard the different scenarios.

    I've been doing a little bit of digging and I think I've found undeniable proof of scientists and NASA pure uneducated guesses about ELENIN or the fact there hiding information about it from the public. I'm quiet surprised this hasn't been noticed before. 
    The above video is my first attempt at making ANY video lol and I try to show evidence of NASA underestimating or denying the effects of ELENIN. it shows a question and answer session involving a normal public Joe and a top scientist representing NASA.

    Link to Question; astrobiology.nasa.gov...



    In the question and answer discussion, David Morrison the Astrobiology Senior Scientist denies to the utmost of anything happening due to ELENIN, slagging off many conspiracy sites as "absurd" "craziness" "lies". 
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    Comet Elenin May Validate Another Nostradamus Prophecy

      
    Quatrain 2.46  
    After great human misery a greater approaches,
    The great motor of the centuries renewed: Rain, blood, milk, famine, weapon, and pestilence,
    In the sky fire seen, dragging long sparks.
    I have done my share of reading over the years, I am not any type seer. I have however always been interested in Nostradamus. He predicted the new millennium would kick off with a very destructive comet. Many thought Hale-Bopp and several others were what he was referring to but it wasn’t it seems. Many have grown weary of the predictions concerning this comet. It appears we have a new candidate which fits the description however and that is comet Elenin. It can be quite dodgy pinpointing exactly when this new millennium is to start as we use the Gregorian calendar, not the Mayan calendar. 
    Why do I emphasize Nostradamus? His track record is superb and he did predict the French Revolution the coming of Hitler and his own death and also the man who dug up his grave and the very date it would happen. Two men dug up his grave and one was killed by a bullet to the head fired during the French revolution. 
    Furthermore the events he describes are exactly why there will not be a world government or a New World Order. The forces of nature are going to step in. 
    I find it very interesting that comet Elenin will approach earth at the closest point in October 2011 and earth will pass through the tail of the comet at least and there are some indications that parts of the comet will strike earth! This suggests some exposure to space debris.
    It is also mentioned that fire from the sky will strike the great New City at 40.5 latitude. This can only be New York City. 
    Throughout various quatrains, red hail is referred to. This is also interesting because comet Elenin is known as a centaur comet and it is strikingly red in color. It is also calculated to be here around the end of the Mayan 9th wave ending in guess what: October. 
    I mentioned in the last post what is termed Uaxaclahunkin. The way I understand the Mayan calendar/short version, March 9, 2011  began the Mayan 9th wave, 13 periods of 18 days culminating on October 28, 2011. It encompasses what the Hopi call the great purification.  The 8th wave was a much longer time period beginning in January 1999. So like the steps of a pyramid the waves become more intense as the entire solar system enters the heart of the milky way galaxy which is very huge.  Solar particle is expected to double at least during this period.  Anybody bothering to read here may recall I have tried to understand what was meant by the Apache medicine man known as grandfather, in his Red Sky Prophecy. Red Elk also talks about a Red Sky. How could the sky turn red? Red Sky Prophecy
    The milky Way is very  Huge
    I have struggled with the idea in other posts wondering if oil on the ocean could produce such a scenario. What Time Is
    The more I sit back and look at this the more I think once again herein lies the answer to many riddles. Various religions speak of signs in the heavens. If the entrance of Comet Elenin is anything like it is advertised, we should definitely see some signs in the heavens. The activist post has a very good run down on Comet Elenin.
    NASA is already admitting the last three alignments of Elenin and the sun is effecting the earth. The last 3 produced the Japanese 9.0 quake, the one in New Zealand and before that the one in Chile. On March 11th Elenin was much farther out. When the next alignment happens it will be devastatingly close. The main point to understand is that if Elenin was just a normal comet it would not have the mass to generate a gravity pull that would affect the earth when the earth swings around into alignment.
    There is also speculation the brown dwarf or Nibiru is in the vicinity of the comet. It is also described in Chinese history called the The Shujing that sparked the great flood. We know it as the deluge. The native Americans simply call it the day the oceans fell from the sky. Terrence McKenna has an interesting take on all this describing this is what it is like at the end of an age when a people prepare to enter the stars. Look inward to know yourselves but look up for your salvation. 
    The Chinese national symbol is the fire dragon, a giant sky dragon that seems to grip the earth in it’s clutches with a certain fury. The Kachina that is supposed to dance in the plaza seems to always be dressed in red doesn’t it?
    There is a site with quite a bit of information on exactly what the author believes could be possible in such a scenario and it is very detailed. He tries to piece together the type scenarios that seem to be described in the quatrains. 
    In fact under this scenario beginning in October is when many of the of the events described by Nostradamus could begin to unfold:
    Very near Auch, Lectoure and Mirande great fire will fall from the sky for three nights: the cause will appear both stupefying and marvelous: very soon after, the earth will tremble. - I.46
    The great mountain, seven stadia round, after peace, war, famine, flooding. It will spread far, drowning great countries, even antiquities and their great foundations - I.69
    Because of the solar heat on the sea of Negrepont the fishes half cooked: The inhabitants will eat them, when there is a lack of food in Rhodes and Genoa.-II.3
    So we have our own Native American prophets speaking of red skys, ancient tales on the cuneiform tablets referring to Nibiru being followed with red dust. Incidentally there is supposed to be a Jupiter like object behind Elenin, and we have biblcal tales concerning the seas turning to blood. I don’t know about you but this is beginning to get my attention. 
    In more detail we have reports of a brown dwarf star or Vulcan, the beginning of the end. Vulcan
    The southern hemisphere is discussed as the best bet on when so Nibiru will show up. Of course there various pics around which purportedly show glimpses of some kind of object out there, probably one of the reasons many countries have stations on the pole.
    The Sumerian epic tells us the approach was from the southern hemisphere the last time it showed up, describing in vivid detail the southern ice pack sliding off it’s hinges creating the deluge and goes so far as to mention the goddess Inana almost got some of them killed wasting time gathering up her jewels before climbing aboard the fiery rocket to escape.
    A primary reason however to take Nostradamus seriously however is his track record. It is so much easier for me, if Nostradamus said a comet will hit the earth (at least pieces) then a comet will hit the earth. Show me someone with a better track record and I am willing to listen. I will say the same thing when it comes to Cayce’s description of Japan going under the waves. Not only is it going to happen, it is happening, the very ground in Japan is liquifying.
    Predictions Nostradamus correctly made:
    The rise of Hitler and Germany, who he called Hisler who would start war and bring blood and fire to Germany
    The French revolution
    The fire of London and the year 66
    Henry II’s Death
    “The young lion will overcome the older one,
    On the field of combat in a single battle;
    He will pierce his eyes through a golden cage,
    Two wounds made one, then he dies a cruel death.” (Century 1, Quatrain 35)
    He indeed had a spear run through his eye while jousting
    He met a Franciscan monk and had addressed him as “Your Holiness”. Several years later, after the death of the great seer, this same monk became Pope Sixtus V
    The Iraq War
    The Nuclear attacks in Hiroshima Nagasaki
    Barack Obama as president
    Hurricane Katrina
    Death of mother Teresa
    Louis Pasteur and pasteurization
    Destruction of the challenger on take off
    911 attacks
    Death of the Kennedys, one by a thunderbolt (bullet)
    in the day time and one at night.
    Predictions yet to come include.
    A comet called Wormwood hitting the earth between 2011 and 2012, October fits the bill here. Also a world war breaking out between the Christian and Arab world, destroying many countries except the ones who do not participate and that seems to be China.
    It is not like we have to wait until october to witness something strange. We already have the Mississippi flooding and tales of strange sink holes forming all over the globe as mentioned in the last post. Massive Sink Holes
    feww over at Fire Earth does an excellent compilation of weather and environmental anomalies now occurring that one would be hard pressed to add to and is now describing the 500 year flood along the Mississippi. Fire Earth
    This seems to happen a lot lately, blogger will eat a few bars of the post. I made a vow to myself this would not happen this time but here is a piece that was supposed to be included concerning McKenna and time wave zero. Cathartes Aura This is more on time wave zero from Doomsday Dan Eden. Doomsday Dan
    And of course we have other problems. Radiation
    I don’t know about you but I am finding myself humming verses of sweet chariot coming for to carry me home! I don’t insist anyone agree with me. When I attempt to discuss any of this with my wife she just rolls her eyes and walks away.
    Of course the geologists have assured that there is “no cause for alarm” the Maine quakes are just the crust adjusting from the last ice age. Gee whiz I should have known. There is never any cause for alarm is there? 
    As I said I always leave out something I meant to put in the post. SU over at easyidler is one of my favorite sites to read simply because she is so honest.

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