Onderstaande mail kreeg ik van een gezamelijke kennis van Mario (meteoman1) en mij. Het is Richard een B-747 captain bij de KLM die mailde uit Kuala-Lumpur;
Interne mail gekregen, het gelazer begint al.
Vannacht ook al geen contact gehad met Yangon (Birma).
Zit nu in Kulala Lumpur, druilerig dagje...
Another Solar Event Disrupts Comm, Nav Systems
"Say Again?"
If you've been having more comm trouble lately, don't blame the radios or
ATC. It's the sun. Again. Another blast of radiation and solar particles is
bathing the Earth.
"The storm has already begun, and last night it grew incredibly strong,"
said Heikki Nevanlinna, research manager at the Finnish Meteorological
Institute told Reuters on Friday. Although the latest solar storm began
where last month's storms began -- in a huge cluster of sunspots known for
their propensity to cause trouble -- Nevanlinna says these storms are
considerably weaker than those of last month.
The biggest problems with the current storm appear to be in GPS and cell
phone systems.
"(GPS receivers) may give bad coordinates or it may take them an extremely
long time to get data. This demonstrates that the intermediary substance in
which the signals are traveling is in a very disturbed state," said
Nevanlinna.
But if that's the worst of it, we're lucky. During last month's storms,
50,000 Swedes were left in the cold and the dark because the geomagnetic
storms knocked their power out.
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