{"id":7931,"date":"2011-06-24T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/06\/24\/aurora-in-cuba-the-carrington-event\/"},"modified":"2011-06-24T10:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T00:07:00","slug":"aurora-in-cuba-the-carrington-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/06\/24\/aurora-in-cuba-the-carrington-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora in Cuba!  The Carrington Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" name=\"pid6632935\">The strongest geomagnetic storm on record is the Carrington Event of August-September 1859, named after British astronomer Richard Carrington who witnessed the instigating solar flare with his unaided eye while he was projecting an image of the sun on a white screen. Geomagnetic activity triggered by the explosion electrified telegraph lines, shocking technicians and setting their telegraph papers on fire; Northern Lights spread as far south as Cuba and Hawaii; auroras over the Rocky Mountains were so bright, the glow woke campers who began preparing breakfast because they thought it was morning. Best estimates rank the Carrington Event as 50% or more stronger than the superstorm of May 1921.<\/a><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" name=\"pid6632935\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Here&#8217;s a good story from Wired: <\/span><br \/><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/09\/telegraphs-ran-on-electric-air-in-crazy-magnetic-storm-150-years-ago\/\">http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/09\/telegraphs-ran-on-electric-air-in-crazy-magnetic-storm-150-years-ago\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I liked the bit about the telegraph operators disconnecting their batteries and continuing to work on &#8220;aurora power&#8221;! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strongest geomagnetic storm on record is the Carrington Event of August-September 1859, named after British astronomer Richard Carrington who witnessed the instigating solar flare with his unaided eye while he was projecting an image of the sun on a white screen. Geomagnetic activity triggered by the explosion electrified telegraph lines, shocking technicians and setting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/06\/24\/aurora-in-cuba-the-carrington-event\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aurora in Cuba!  The Carrington Event&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-cycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}