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It's kind of common knowledge that the sun storms are especially strong this year. You really cannot blame what's happening on the sun on humans. We have absolutely no effect on the sun or it's storms.
A wave of plasma from the flare could reach Earth by the U.S. Independence Day holiday on Wednesday, July 4.
The sun storm came from a large sunspot called AR1515 that is now rotating across the Earth-facing side of the sun. It unleashed an intense solar flare at 6:43 a.m. EDT (1043 GMT) today in what is expected to be one of several strong solar storms in the days ahead, space weather officials said.
It would appear to be directed at the east coast of North America, and will include Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and possibly as far south as NYC.
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Space Weather Message Code: SUMXM5
Serial Number: 92
Issue Time: 2012 Jul 04 1028 UTC
SUMMARY: X-ray Event exceeded M5
Begin Time: 2012 Jul 04 0947 UTC
Maximum Time: 2012 Jul 04 0955 UTC
End Time: 2012 Jul 04 0957 UTC
X-ray Class: M5.3
Optical Class: 2b
Location: S20W18
NOAA Scale: R2 - Moderate
Potential Impacts: Area of impact centered primarily on sub-solar point on the sunlit side of Earth.
Radio - Limited blackout of HF (high frequency) radio communication for tens of minutes.
I'm surprised Global Warming is attack the East Coast. That area is full of Liberals that believe in Global Warming so why is Global Warming attacking them?
I remember summers like this, when I was growing up, back in the 60s. It was a given.
But that was before the Religion of Global Warming became popular.
Really? Are you saying that the 40,000 high temperature records set so far this year ommited the records from the 60s?
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