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    Sun fires off 2 huge solar flares, could impact weather on Earth
    A massive solar storm arrived at Earth early Thursday, and is expected to shake the globe's magnetic field until early Friday morning, while expanding the Northern Lights.

    A giant blast of plasma spat from the sun at as much as 4 million miles per hour Tuesday -- by some measures the largest solar event since late 2006 -- and it could lead to serious issues on Earth, forcing some planes to reroute, knocking out power grids, and blacking out radios.

    The sun unleashed the cosmic double whammy late March 6, erupting with two major flares to cap a busy day of powerful solar storms, Space.com reported. One of the flares is the most powerful solar eruption so far this year.

    “Super Tuesday? You bet!” joked Joseph Kunches, a space weather scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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    Re: Sun fires off 2 major solar flares, can impact Earth!

    This blast fizzled out like Breitbart's earthshaking expose on Obama, and Hannity's radical! 'new' discovery.
    https://www.facebook.com/Bobby-Ingan...5875444640256/

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    • #3
      Re: Sun fires off 2 major solar flares, can impact Earth!

      Originally posted by Ron Whitfield View Post
      This blast fizzled out like Breitbart's earthshaking expose on Obama, and Hannity's radical! 'new' discovery.
      Actually, I had a friend whose flight from O`ahu to Hawai`i Island today was delayed, partially due to affected GPS systems. And the Northern Lights have been visible farther south than usual the past couple of nights.

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      • #4
        Re: Sun fires off 2 major solar flares, can impact Earth!

        Check this auroral display over Iceland:

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        • #5
          Re: Sun fires off 2 major solar flares, can impact Earth!

          A picture is worth well more than a thousand words in this case.
          The "Carrington" event happened in 1859 and was the largest solar flare within
          recent history.
          The telegraph system went haywire.

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          • #6
            Re: Sun fires off 2 major solar flares, can impact Earth!

            The visuals are really cool, but this was supposed to be some real trouble, fortunately all we got were some positives.
            https://www.facebook.com/Bobby-Ingan...5875444640256/

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              Re: Sun fires off 2 major solar flares, can impact Earth!

              Y2K:The Movie

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              • #8
                Re: Sun fires off 2 major solar flares, can impact Earth!

                One of the cool features of the above photo is the upper third of the frame.
                The apparent position of the solar particle stream seems to arrive in a rather
                linear fashion and then appear to ablate against the upper atmosphere in a
                pancaking sort of splat.
                The Aurora will provide lots of fun for photographers in the near future.
                Keep those batteries charged!

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                • #9
                  Re: Sun fires off 2 major solar flares, can impact Earth!

                  It sure was hilarious to find all the people amazed at brooms standing alone and believing it was the alignment and flare thing behind it tho!
                  If anyone on Oahu is NOT happy , feel free to trade places with me.

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                  • #10
                    Re: Sun fires off 2 major solar flares, can impact Earth!

                    They were talking about this on coast 2 coast recently.

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                    • #11
                      Re: Sun fires off 2 major solar flares, can impact Earth!

                      Maybe this is why we are having one of the hottest summer's ever. We had 117 the other day. It's brutal!!
                      If anyone on Oahu is NOT happy , feel free to trade places with me.

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                        Re: Sun fires off 2 major solar flares, can impact Earth!

                        Originally posted by memorylane View Post
                        Maybe this is why we are having one of the hottest summer's ever. We had 117 the other day. It's brutal!!
                        Yuck! I could not handle such weather without feeling like the Wicked Witch after getting water spilled on her. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7GJcKuVGm8

                        Short answer, though, is "no"; long answer is at http://www.climatewatch.noaa.gov/art...waves-on-earth

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