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Mid-February is going to be wild, no matter where anyone is….the sun is going to be doing some strange things….
Quoting: misty eyed Sun will have a weakened magnetic field and pole reversal in the next few months, misty eyed. That will also be peak sunspot time, although this cycle seems to be milder (fewer sunspots) than previous ones. The absolute number of sunspots or peak number is important, but it only takes one of those (out of hundreds) to blast the earth at the right angle and the right spot for a major solar storm. This at a time when the earth's magnetic field (shield) is relatively weaker, and weaker than during the Carrington Event of 1859. The Carrington Event happened at sunspot peak (cycle 10) - about average in number of sunspots but twice as many as the current weak one (cycle 25). But it only takes on healthy CME, not matter how many sun spots are flying around.
Either we'll be lucky in Feb (or March or April), or we won't.
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This is about a week out. In a month, according to uncle, because the earth’s core has stopped, earthquakes are on the rise.
Quoting: misty eyed I've seen this repeated a lot lately, misty eyed (so not picking on you or uncle) but it's simply not true. The earth's core rotates, on average, about the same speed as the earth. It can rotate slightly faster or slower, and has done so many times. The recent change is that it went from rotating exactly the same speed to rotating slightly slower.
If you drilled a hole at the equator 3000 miles down to the core and looked at its surface, it would have appeared to be moving 'forward' or faster relative to the west-to-east motion of the crust you're standing on. At least until 2009, when it appeared to have stopped RELATIVE TO THE CRUST. It didn't stop rotating - it just rotated at exactly the same speed as the crust. At least according to the Chinese guy's study.
The core rotation has slowed a bit lately, so now it would appear to be moving 'backward' or slower relative to the crust's west-to-east rotation. The core did NOT reverse its direction to spin east-to-west - that's impossible.
This leading/lagging reversal may be happening repeatedly in 60-70 year cycles according to some geo-whatever dudes. By their measurements, the core 'stopped' in the 1970's and started rotating faster. 2009 was the end of that half of the cycle, when it again 'stopped' and now has started rotating slightly slower relative to the crust, but still in the same direction.
There are many confounding studies so nothing is certain. And the core is not a homogenous, solid ball of nickel-iron. It's more like runny nickel-iron honey or Jello and may have several shells slipping around inside each other. Nobody can say for sure - they're making educated guesses based on seismic waves.
How much faster or slower? Estimates range from one degree per million years to a degree or two per year. Depends who you ask and how slippery or sticky they think the ball could be and if they think the rotation oscillates over decades or not. None of those guys (including the recent Chinese study being misreported in the MSM) suggest the core's spin has actually reversed to be completely opposite the rotation of the mantle.
This could just be subterranean aliens f'king with us, too. Never rule that out - I don't trust those spindly little bastards. What are they DOING down there??
