Damn good thing we gave up sun worship in our house recently. We'd be under the sofa with flares like this. Space Weather reports:
Did anyone see anything out of this blast?SUPERFLARE:Giant sunspot 486 unleashed another powerful solar flare on Nov. 4th (1950 UT). Ionizing radiation hit Earth's atmosphere soon after the explosion and caused a severe radio blackout, which radio listeners noticed across North America.
This latest flare from sunspot 486 could be historic. The blast saturated X-ray detectors onboard GOES satellites for 11 minutes. The last time a flare did this, on April 2nd, 2001, it was classified as an X20--the biggest ever recorded at the time. The Nov. 4th, 2003, solar flare appears to have been even stronger. [more]
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Mike - November 5, 2003 1:03 PM
I didn't see them, but there were lots of reports of Northern lights all over Nova Scotia. Most unusual. Wish I'd seen them!
Arthur - November 5, 2003 8:17 PM
<p>Did anyone see anything out of this blast?</p>
<p>I have these terrible headaches lately. Do those count too? :-)
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