SOLAR STORM WARNING!!!!!

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Tsanten Eywa 'eveng

Those who look to the skies on Friday (Aug. 5) may see exceptional auroras thanks to a strong solar flare that hurled a cloud of plasma toward Earth earlier this week.

The solar flare occurred yesterday (Aug. 2) when an intense magnetic event above sunspot 1261 blasted out a flow of charged particles that's now headed toward Earth, according to SpaceWeather.com, a website that monitors space weather. This could unleash a geomagnetic storm here on our planet that might disrupt satellite and radio communications.

The plus side, though, is that skywatchers at high latitudes can expect extra-special aurora borealis displays, also known as the Northern Lights, from the interaction of these charged particles with Earth's magnetic field.

read more here on space.com
http://www.space.com/12530-solar-flare-aurora-northern-lights-friday.html

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on August 9(yesterday), the sun unleashed an X-flare(X6.9), the strongest flare on 8 years(since 2003), X-flare is the strongest class, but Earth will not be affected, the flare didn't pointed on Earth:
http://www.space.com/12580-sun-unleashes-major-solar-flare.html

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