Any thruth about the projected 2011 electromagnetic strom?

Question

It seems every 11 years the sun sends out an electromagnetic storm and it escalates in intensity each time. The next time it's suposed to reach out to the earth.

Answer 1

The sun does go through an eleven year cycle where sunspots and electromagnetic storm activity peaks every 11 years or so. I don't know if it's getting stronger every time, though. It does affect mankind more every cycle, but thats because we have more and more satellites in orbit all the time, so there's more hardware to be affected. It won't cause too much trouble on the ground, though. The Van Allen radiation belts and the ozone layers block most of it. Mostly it would affect communications, and cause radio static, etc. I wouldn't get your knickers in a knot over it.

Answer 2

Electromagnetic storms happen constantly. There is an 11 year sunspot cycle on the sun and the more intense storms tend to happen at sunspot peaks. The last peak was in 2000, but the 11 years is just an average. I wouldn't worry too much about it. If you're older than 10 you've already lived through hundreds of electromagnetic storms.

Answer 3

At the peak of the suns cycle, spots can be seen signifying the location of a magnetic field twisted in a knot......these areas spew plasma - sometimes ejecting the material out 100's of 1000's of miles out into space clearly beyond the coronisphere. The storm is very likely!~ on what magnatude?, who knows?