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Hurricane Sandy – live cam, latest public advisory and satellite imagery

The Watchers
October 29, 2012

Follow latest Hurricane Sandy conditions, public advisory, satellite imagery and live web cam with us. Livestream Storm Cam – “Sandycam” is located on top of Livestream’s World Headquarters in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City. The camera is mounted on the roof facing south towards the Financial District. Any shaking of the image is caused by high winds as the camera is mounted outside.

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October 30, 2012 | Categories: natural / "natural" disasters, news, science, US, videos | 2 Comments

Sandy the Powerful: US battens down as hurricane approaches [video]

Russia Today
October 29, 2012

From the lowest lying areas of the New Jersey shoreline, where residents were already being encouraged to leave, to the state’s northern highlands, where sandbags were being filled and cars moved into car parks on higher ground, New Jersey began preparing in earnest for Hurricane Sandy on Monday. Along the boardwalk at Asbury Park in New Jersey, a few hardy souls ventured out to watch the building fury of Hurricane Sandy.
Businesses were boarded up and sandbags in place as the storm lashed the coastline. Even so, residents of nearby towns walked out into the face of the storm to see for themselves.

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Frankenstorm Sandy: First video of giant waves hitting US coast

Russia Today
October 29, 2012

With forecasters expecting that the New York area could get the worst of the super storm moving its way towards the country, property owners boarded up their homes and many were not leaving anything to chance and evacuated their families out of the city centre on Sunday. Forecasters warn the mega storm can wreak havoc over 800 miles (1,300 kilometres) from the East Coast to the Great Lakes.

CBS Live Update on Hurricane Sandy – 10/29/12 [video]

Sheila Aliens
October 29, 2012

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October 30, 2012 | Categories: natural / "natural" disasters, news, science, US, videos | Leave a comment

Solar monitors are offline due the superstorm impact on US East Coast

by Chillymanjaro
The Watchers
October 30, 2012

All eyes are focused on Sandy and its epic impact on US East Coast. All of you that are focused also on space weather events, probably have noticed that there is blackout of solar observing data providers. The SDO, SOHO, STEREO and helioviewer sites are all offline. Websites are being taken offline for immediate access during the east coast storm. Goddard Space Flight Center is in the metro DC area, which will experience significant storm impact.

However, all solar data is still being recorded. Current space weather conditions are still being monitored by the GOES spacecraft.

X-ray levels recorded by NOAA/SWPC at Boulder, Colorado are showing quiet conditions but latest few days we could see some activity. Large solar flares could be observed. However, although they looked spectacular, there were no M-class or even bigger C-class recorded on its charts.

video clip: The magnetic canopy of a sunspot group just over the sun’s southwestern limb slowly erupted on Oct. 28th.

The largest and only event recorded on October 29 was a B6 flare at 03:02 UTC from Region 1596. Regions 1601 and 1602 were numbered on October 29. No Earth-directed CMEs were detected during the reporting period.

A long duration C-class flare was observed beyond the southwest limb on Sunday morning near old region 1594 but generated plasma was not Earth-directed.

Here is a look at the current sunspots in visible light with the SDO/HMI instrument along with the EUV sun with SDO/AIA. Current SDO data can be found at http://sdowww.lmsal.com/suntoday/ and http://jsoc.stanford.edu/data/hmi/images/latest/.

CURRENT CONDITIONS:

A Geomagnetic Storm Watch has been issued by the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center. Minor G1 Level Storming is possible by November 1st, due the arrival of the CMEs from October 27/28.

Solar wind
speed: 276.3 km/sec
density: 1.5 protons/cm³

The Radio Sun
10.7 cm flux: 117 sfu

Interplanetary Mag. Field
B_total: 3.8 nT
B_z: 2.4 nT south

Moderate solar activity – M2.3 solar flare, G2 geomagnetic storm Moderate solar activity has been observed during the past 24 hours. M2.3 solar flare was triggered by an Active Region behind the eastern limb around 11:17 UTC. Three C flares occurred during the day producing two CMEs, observed by LASCO C2/C3 coming off the east limb early in the day, however neither are expected to be geoeffective. Geomagnetic storming reaching the G2 (Moderate) level was observed overnight with the arrival of expected October 5 CME. At G2 level high-latitude power systems……
Solar activity at low levels with possible Earth-directed CME… Solar activity was at low levels for the past 24 hours and X-Ray flux plot shown merely C-class threshold. However, a prominence eruption was observed north of Region 1600. A bright CME was observed in STEREO Ahead COR 2 imagery at 18:24 UTC on October 27. Latest STEREO Ahead COR2 images indicate that this CME may be Earth directed. SIDC reports that a halo or partial-halo CME was detected. SpaceWeather.com reports that filament of magnetism snaking around the……
Strong solar activity causing severe geomagnetic storm High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras. A strong (Kp=7) geomagnetic storm is in progress. Earth’s magnetic field has been strongly disturbed since approximately 1300 UT on Sept. 26th when a CME hit our planet. The impact strongly compressed the magnetosphere, exposing geosynchronous satellites to solar wind plasma, and ignited auroras around both poles. Particles that were blasted from the sun by a huge eruption over the weekend have reached Earth, causing geomagnetic storms……
Spacecraft sees solar storm engulf Earth For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet. The movie, released today during a NASA press conference, has galvanized solar physicists, who say it could lead to important advances in space weather forecasting. The movie shows a CME swelling into an enormous wall of plasma and then washing over the tiny blue speck of Earth where we live. CMEs are billion-ton clouds of solar……