ALERT: Strap-on your DEPENDS

November 12, 2025, 13:35

MAXIMUS PANDAMONIUS

West Coast shaken by earthquake near underwater volcano as experts warn eruption is imminent
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12:30 EST 12 Nov 2025, updated 13:45 EST 12 Nov 2025
By CHRIS MELORE, US ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR

MORE: Massive underwater volcano to blow at any moment and release millions of tons of lava
A major earthquake rattled the Oregon Coast near a highly active Pacific Northwest volcano, which experts say could erupt at any moment.

November 12, 2025, 21:33

MAXIMUS PANDAMONIUS

Cme incoming

November 13, 2025, 00:43

raisedbypoodles

https://spaceweather.com/

Solar wind (speed & density currently fluctuating)
speed: 836.4 km/sec (519.71487 mph)
density: 0.29 protons/cm3 (low density)

upper right corner of page, you can go back a few days or as far as 2001

November 13, 2025, 00:48

raisedbypoodles

Classification of X-ray Solar Flares

"Scientists classify solar flares according to their x-ray brightness in the wavelength range 1 to 8 Angstroms. There are 3 categories: X-class flares are big; they are major events that can trigger planet-wide radio blackouts and long-lasting radiation storms. M-class flares are medium-sized; they can cause brief radio blackouts that affect Earth's polar regions. Minor radiation storms sometimes follow an M-class flare. Compared to X- and M-class events, C-class flares are small with few noticeable consequences here on Earth."

November 13, 2025, 01:02

raisedbypoodles

"Sunspot 4274 has a 'beta-gamma-delta' magnetic field that harbors energy for X-class solar flares"

(magnetic instability = possible more X-class flares.. also, 4274 is nearing the edge of the sun where solar flares have a very strong effect on earth)

November 14, 2025, 02:45

raisedbypoodles

quote:
DID THE SOLAR STORM CONFUSE THIS LAWN MOWER?

In May 2024, many farmers were dumbfounded when their GPS-guided tractors suddenly went off course. "Our tractors acted like they were demon possessed," reported one observer. The problem was caused by a severe geomagnetic storm.

It might have just happened again--to a lawn mower:

"I have a Lymow One Robotic Lawn Mower," says Carl LeFebvre of Dunedin, Florida. "It uses GPS/RTK to stay on track and is usually accurate down to a centimeter or two. On Nov. 11th, the mower kept wandering off into the garden beds and chewing on flowers instead of its normal diet of turf grass. It didn’t occur to me that it might have been related to the solar storms, until I read the article on Spaceweather.com."

Solar activity poses a growing problem for GPS-guided machines. During big solar storms, the ionosphere fills with bubbles, waves, and turbulence, which distort radio signals from GPS satellites. Severely garbled signals can stop harvestors in their tracks or send lawn mowers into the flower bed.

Readers, if your GPS-guided equipment went off course on Nov. 11-12, let us know.

https://spaceweather.com/ 11/14/25