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Can you cram in 12 hours all the survival essentials you would need to save your family for several months?
That’s all the warning you would have before a solar storm takes out the power grid, according to a new government report from the United Kingdom.
The Space Weather Preparedness Strategy report revealed that the warning could be as little as 12 hours before a coronal mass ejection (CME) hits Earth and sends us all back to a 1800s existence.
It typically takes one to three days for a CME to arrive, and predictions are accurate to within about six hours.
“Generally speaking, the faster the ejection, the greater the potential impacts,” the report said. “The [1859] Carrington Event, for example, travelled to Earth in as little as 18 hours. It is therefore likely that our reasonable worst case scenario would only allow us 12 hours from observation to impact.”
http://www.offthegridnews.com/grid-...wed-get-before-a-solar-storm-says-new-report/
That’s all the warning you would have before a solar storm takes out the power grid, according to a new government report from the United Kingdom.
The Space Weather Preparedness Strategy report revealed that the warning could be as little as 12 hours before a coronal mass ejection (CME) hits Earth and sends us all back to a 1800s existence.
It typically takes one to three days for a CME to arrive, and predictions are accurate to within about six hours.
“Generally speaking, the faster the ejection, the greater the potential impacts,” the report said. “The [1859] Carrington Event, for example, travelled to Earth in as little as 18 hours. It is therefore likely that our reasonable worst case scenario would only allow us 12 hours from observation to impact.”
http://www.offthegridnews.com/grid-...wed-get-before-a-solar-storm-says-new-report/