The Britsh Geological Survey yesterday issued a space weather warning following the ejection of three substantial solar flares from the Sun's surface. On 13 February, "rapidly growing" sunspot 1158 let rip with an ominous-sounding "M6.6-category X-ray irradiance magnitude blast" - the strongest of the year to that date, and …

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Wednesday 16th February 2011 17:59 GMT Robert E A Harvey

I, For one, welcome...

What's the betting this gets the blame for the first WP7 bugs?

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1. Wednesday 16th February 2011 21:06 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  If you must...
  
  If you must hold the sun with your finger just there, and your thumb just there, then of course it will flare.
  
  Look, hold it properly, and it'll be fine...
  
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  1. Thursday 17th February 2011 16:54 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Sigh
    
    ""It has been the largest flare since 6 December, 2006"
    
    Or to put it in a less attention seeking way:
    
    "The sun is doing what it has done before, again"
    
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Wednesday 16th February 2011 17:59 GMT Dick Emery

Crikey!

Rolling backouts getting you down? Radio interference making your [wife/wifi/life] a misery? Fedup of looking at flickery lights in the Northern sky?

Well you need a beautiful, big, bouncy, page 3 babe (Over 18 of course. Not like in the olden days when we had illegal 16 year olds with their kit orf mind) to take your beleagured (and soon to be monitored) mind orf things!

It's all in your super soar away Sun!

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Wednesday 16th February 2011 20:50 GMT Andus McCoatover

http://www.terrencemiao.com/funny/2005-06/tn/Now_That_s_What_I_Call_a_Fart.gif.html

I think there IS an app for that..

Understandably, on Nokia's OVI site. Get it while it's still live, folks.

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Wednesday 16th February 2011 20:50 GMT Anonymous Coward

Signal flare

Access the unisphere people, the starflyer is real.

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1. Thursday 17th February 2011 11:47 GMT Another One
  
  Void...
  
  I'm just on the last volume of the Void trilogy - good reading.
  
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Wednesday 16th February 2011 20:58 GMT Mystic Megabyte

Aurora

If you see this hit the dotted line go outside and charge up your flux capacitors..

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/pro_3d.html

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Wednesday 16th February 2011 21:03 GMT Andus McCoatover

So, according to history..

We're looking at the demise of Nokia after Elop's announcement^W^W^W in about 72 hours.

NOW I need tinfoil to wrap the N8 up in.

PS, anyone wrapping up basestations?

Oh, yeah. That'll be Nokia Siemens Networks. Forgot.

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Wednesday 16th February 2011 21:04 GMT Jeroen Braamhaar

More info

More (technical) information and pretty pictures:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/14/sunspot-group-1158-produces-and-x-class-solar-flare/

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Thursday 17th February 2011 11:03 GMT Michael H.F. Wilkinson

With a near full moon

it's going to be hard to spot any northern lights.

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Thursday 17th February 2011 11:17 GMT Danny 2

Pass the Smell-O-Scope

Since solar flares are really just the 'silent but deadly' hot farts of a star then science has caught up with Futurama just in time with the 'Nasal Ranger' smell-o-scope. nasalranger.com

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Thursday 17th February 2011 11:25 GMT Anonymous Coward

Beat that HP!

Ha! I bet HP can't spew out anything of any note.... (It's an IT angle isn't it?)

Choke on that Matty.

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Thursday 17th February 2011 16:39 GMT Anonymous Coward

I blame NASA

Sticking those STEREO satellite things either side of the sun probably caused this.

When will they learn?

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