Significant Solar Storm

["Robert J. Barish" <robbarish@aol.com>]

Greetings RADSAFERS:

If any of you want to see the real-time satellite plots of a significant
solar particle event happening at the time of this message, you are invited
to take a look at the NOAA website. Go to:
http://sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/pro_3d.cgi

This event (at noon EDT) is somewhere between an S3 and S4 on the NOAA solar
storm space weather scale. If you look at that page:
http://sec.noaa.gov/NOAAscales/#SolarRadiationStorms
you'll see that NOAA says this level event is reponsible for a dose rate at
airliner altitudes equivalent to 3-4 x rays per hour. See the correspondence
section in the July issue of Health Physics for more on this.

Regards to all.
Rob Barish, CHP
robbarish@aol.com

************************************************************************
The RADSAFE Frequently Asked Questions list, archives and subscription
information can be accessed at http://www.ehs.uiuc.edu/~rad/radsafe.html