Solar storm

Twostage
Twostage Posts: 987
edited March 2012 in Commuting chat
They mentioned on the news this morning about a solar flare that could affect GPS today. I checked on garmin.connect and if I disabled elevation corrections I spent quite a bit of time today upto 74 feet below sea level on my commutes. All other commutes I checked were above ground. Anyone else affected ?

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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    I've been looking out for any aurora, but it seems the storms have been less severe than expected.
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  • meanredspider
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    Unfortunately too cloudy here for spotting aurora. The real storm (wind version) is more impactful
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  • DrLex
    DrLex Posts: 2,142
    I was going to leave the carbon bike at home, just in case it was irradiated and became hydrogen enbrittled or something...
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    edited March 2012
    GPS altitude figures tend to be a bit wild. I've climbed 100s of metres cycling along dykes in Holland before now.
  • veronese68
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    I don't think Vermin's had any problems. I believe he really does commute to Burkina Faso at a few thousand miles an hour. Take a look at the Strava thread.
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  • Twostage
    Twostage Posts: 987
    Re: aurora. go here http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/

    It is on red alert which means if it was dark we would be seeing northern lights all over the UK.

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  • bails87
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    http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/soci ... 203084986/
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  • ToeKnee
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    My Garmin 800 turned itself off at somepoint on my ride in this morning ... and I only noticed just after I'd pushed really hard (for me) on a segment.:twisted:

    Do I blame "The Storm" ... or Wiggle?
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  • t4tomo
    t4tomo Posts: 2,643
    bompington wrote:
    GPS altitude figures tend to be a bit wild. I've climbed 100s of metres cycling along dykes in Holland before now.

    I know some of those dutch girls are tall but thats ridiculous.
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