X and M Class Solar Flares Headed Towards Earth

Posted by Lorren on September 6, 2011

About a year ago, I wrote about Sunspots and Global Cooling. For the previous few years prior, I had witnessed cool temperatures like I had never seen before in my life. For the first 18 years of my life, I lived in Western Washington, and it had never snowed on Christmas. The last couple of times I’ve visited my family over Christmas, it snowed. My daughter thinks that it always snows there. I even witnessed graupel (which is a little like snow, a little like hail) here in Phoenix over the past winter.

Looks like things may be changing. The solar flares look like they might be kicking up again. Over the last day or so, we’ve had two M-class solar flares and one X-class solar flare (the largest kind), all headed towards the earth.

Other than the fact that it could alter the Earth’s temperature, these solar flares could affect us in other ways in the next couple of days. If you remembered the height of the last solar cycle in the 1990s, there were times when satellite service would be interrupted and television or cell phone service would have problems. Of course then, people weren’t as dependent on their cell phones, or even the Internet.

Over the next few days, you don’t want to have to rely on your cell phone, GPS, or even television service. There may be interruptions caused by these solar flares. Hopefully it won’t come to much, but it is something to watch for.