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The weather recently has been far from sunny, however I just found this charming little story from England:

“‘Because I took my holidays in the UK, I would never have thought I was in a high risk category,’ said Lee Jordan, web designer. ‘I was shocked to discover how far the melanomas had progressed by the time the doctors looked at them. Young people in particular need to be aware that there is an easy way to get their skin checked for this most dangerous of diseases.’” Source

It’s then typical that the weather is rather wet and dull! But seriously the UV Index is creeping up, while focusing on sun protection for your summer holiday, bear in mind the dangers of the pub lunch, or the gardening, or the journey on the sunny side of a train, or chosing to wear shorts not jeans ….. and on and on. Then of course comes mole watch.

This Monday coming there will a solar eclipse viewable from Europe, best seats in town are in and around Madrid where a “ring of fire” could be witnessed, hopefully where the Corona, which is the suns atmoshpere will be visible. Other places may see the moon slightly covering the sun. Try reflecting the sun inside to the celing of a darkend room and thus view the event safely, even better get logged onto a few sites which may bring live web cam feeds from around the world.

The following link has a wonderful map showing what the eclipse may look like where you are, here’s hoping for a cloudless morning. Around 8:30am to 9:00am UTC (near GMT) would be a great time is when this may kick in where you are.

Snaevarr Gudmundsson, an airplane flying above Iceland (showing a ring of fire)

Spaceweather.com have a gallery of the last such solar eclipse to appear over land. I believe there was one this year but out in the Pacific Ocean away from land.

“Women told to spend more time in sun” Source

My fear is that young women take that as a licence to tan to stay healthy, when in fact this story at least points to the benefits of Vitamin D for older women to keep good bone strength. Such advice should always come with “15 minutes a day is enough sunshine”.

Vitamin D production effectivley slows down as we move into the Winter months. Hence it may be worth kicking up moleAware messages during the winter months to keep a sustained awarness throughout the year, summer goes away but skin cancer I assure you doesn’t take a winter break.

If you are concerned by a lack of Vitamin D do not seek it from winter holidays or tanning salons, the risk of one of the most malignant forms of cancer certainly doesn’t outweigh the benefit.

The article also talks of people who mainly stay indoors and it is this group that are more prone to intermitent sun exposure related to Melanoma. At the end of the day, do what works for you but please read such articles as being advice that may lead to an even higher risk of Melanoma if your risk factors are already sky high.

Huston we have a …. well no not a problem as such, more of an emergency I would say:

Rita is up to category four five four. Totally won’t be suprising in the US at least for pump prices to go back up. Urbansurvival.com have also called a nuclear power plant not to mention GWB’s Crawford ranch within the storm track, not that you will hear that officially of course until the headlines are written, but Texas could take quite a hamering from this one. NASA managed to weather Katrina, I think the space shuttle tanks escaped unharmed by Katrina but not much was made of that.

We’ve got the global warming crew out in force on this issue, noting that America’s view on Kyoto and atitude is causing these hurricanes *sigh*.

It’s one to watch, a few days after the geomagnetic storms subside, I’m begining to see paterns that major weather is effected by the extra energy from solar storms usually a few days or a week after the event, for example now.

As for the human cost, damm that is gonna cut right up through Texas with Tornados popping off here and there, flash flooding and the like wouldn’t be unexpected I guess.

As I read reports of climate change on Mars, can we not for one second consider that the sun maybe connected to all of this somehow?

“What further proof could I possibly provide th[a]n the “fact” that Mars, where not one single human exist is experiencing so-called “global warming”. So step up hot-shot global warming zealot. Tell us why “Mars” is experiencing a warming trend?” Mitch Battros, BBC Article

If global warming is happening elsewhere in the *solar* system, yes the solar system and assuming that our technology isn’t causing the release of Carbon Dioxide on Mars and assuming there are no roads, heavy industries, comercial air craft and gas powered power stations … how do you explain what is happening to Mars is it not the same thing we are seeing here …… nature in action?

How do you explain dust devils on Mars that occured at the same time as Tornados on Earth that occured at the same time that a massive flare was released from the sun. The Ozone layer is at record lows, as it was in January when a massive sunspot caused many flares. Facts are there, world opinion is focused on the fraud of Global Warming .. go figure!

Three major storms were tracked after Katrina, Maria was on track for Iceland, but instead hit norway. In the UK last nights awful weather could have been the edges of such a storm. Fact is a (downgraded) Hurricane has just hit Europe after tracking a unusual path, that swa it drop off American radars last week and was downgraded to a tropical depression.

“The two storms sprung out of the Caribbean last week but headed northeast instead of towards the US mainland. By the time they hit the Nordic area, they’re expected to have lost much of their punch.” Source

Question remains now, if this happens again will there be a hand over of data from American agencies to European ones, noting Norway isn’t too far away from where I am now (in the scheme of things), noting that a hurricane tracked to Europe and noting recent solar events, it makes for an interesting story.

“Maria hit the western shores of Scandinavia with south-southwestern winds blowing at an average speed of between 75 and 90 kilometers (47 to 56 miles) per hour.”

Roughly two days after the start of intense geomagnetic storming of the planet, the lights go out in LA. I’m not about to even consider this is a warning for sleeper cells to leave the area, if it happens in Melborne, I will of course reconsider.

As the September nights draw in I know where my torch is, do you?

To read more about Geomagnetically Induced Currents and how they are linked to solar storms and how they can knock out power grids, cause traffic lights to fail, bring chaos to a populated area yada yada yada click here

“The Los Angeles Times reported in its online edition that a spokesman for the county Office of Emergency Management said the massive failure was caused after an employee ‘inadvertenly cut a power cable’ at a DWP substation in West Los Angeles.” Source

In the interests of non-bias reporting a contradiction to my theroy, even so certain agencies want to down play the threat from the sun, truth is we don’t know what truth is!

“Fire officials said they received reports of people stuck in elevators, and traffic was snarled at intersections throughout the city when stop lights went dark. Some neighboring cities also were affected. The Police Department went on ‘full tactical alert’, meaning no officers were allowed to leave duty.” Source

The whole power outage thing after solar storms isn’t even suprising to me anymore …. this is me smiling basking in knowledge that I’m now passing on to you, which is even better than finding it out myself. The sun can cause power failures, on this occasion I’m not saying it has, but 7 X-Class Flares in 4 days? Undeniable interest in news events are sure to follow.

The interplanetary index that shows the blows of solar flares on magnetic feilds, goes off the scale as solar storms continue. You can keep updated on this from the NOAA page here

Red is not so good, this weeks solar storms have been quite agressive, it’s not over yet, it just might have only begun, on the other hand the sunspot group could be running out of steam, let’s hope so

This sobering post from the ECTV newsletter reads:

“now sunspot region 808 has rotated into position to cause “Earth Directed” flares and CME’s (coronal mass ejections). From this point on, and for the next 23 days, each and every flare has the potential for a glancing or direct hit to Earth. When the charged particles hit our protective magnetic field, the magnetic field shifts as if cranking tightly on a jar top. When this occurs, it in turn, causes a shift in the jet stream, often causing it to drop down low enough to disturb weather patterns.” Source

Violence Erupts in Belfast as the KP Index spikes and geomagnetic storm rage across the world, also Isreal show a sign of peace and people in Britian start panic buying the petrol ahead of fuel protests. The anniversary of 9/11 is marked and MI5 cheifs are preparing us to have more rights stolen.

Just saying about the human connection to solar storms. These are the news events of the time of the 6th X-Class Flare in less than half a week.

If this interests you please please, pickup a copy of Solar Rain from Earthchangestv.com. A 6th X Class solar flare has blasted off from the Sun as SOHO returns to give us a full view of the huge sunspot region now known as 808.

Don’t take my word for it, I’m of the opinion that these events affect our weather, if not then our power grids and our technology. I’m nowhere near expert in this subject, not even close to novice level but from looking at the recent 5 minute XRay graphs I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that the sun is gearing up for something to almost match the Halloween storms of 2003, except blast the big one right at us. With no lack of power the huge sunspot that will be visible to the unaided eye (be careful, use filters) might turn to face earth with as much risk for X-Class flares as right now.

Urm and that might not be a good thing for the world! Let’s just say if a hurricane or troppical storm hit Iceland because of this, at least I partly called it, before it happened. Radiation storms continue, radio blackouts affect the polar regions, as this weekend the Aurora’s kick in. It’s exciting to see this happening, six major events in a few days, I’ve never seen it before and rumor (and it is that) rumor has it NASA doesn’t want to detail how much of a risk we face from a direct hit with a mega flare.

Spaceweather.com, their front page for today is dominated with solar activity, just a few days ago they were proclaiming the sun to be blank and inactive.

An example of violence increasing under 5 X Class solar falres? There is no evidence whatsoever to support the effect of sunspots on human behavoiur, it’s a very interesting angle : Source