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October 28, 2003
Warning
There is a sun god and boy is he pissed. Ok, maybe not. But there is a huge solar flare headed our way....predicted to hit sometime tomorrow afternoon. And it's a big 'un.
But Kohl said scientists observed the biggest such explosion in 30 years shortly before 6 a.m. EST Tuesday. It produced a particle cloud 13 times larger than Earth and hurtled through the solar system at more than 1 million miles per hour.
The resulting geomagnetic storm could be ranked among the most powerful of its kind and last for 24 hours.
On a more positive note, we may be able to see the aurora as far south as Texas and Florida.
That'll be cool!
Posted by Rita at October 28, 2003 08:21 PM
Comments
Ooh, me wants to see some northern lights down here... Just my luck it will probably be raining. After all, it was raining last night. After a week of clear skies. Grr.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at October 29, 2003 06:29 AM
I'd love to see them too. They've been visible here occasionally, but I've always missed them for one reason or another.
Ooo, I better check the forecast for here.
Posted by: Rita at October 29, 2003 06:54 AM