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Duck ! Here come the flares.....

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(@derek-g-graham-ols-olip)
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AFBs at the ready !

GPS fried ?

Derek

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Space Weather News for Feb. 14, 2011
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EARTH-DIRECTED SOLAR ACTIVITY: Solar activity increased sharply over the weekend with the eruption of an M6.6-class solar flare from behemoth sunspot 1158. The blast produced a strong burst of radio waves heard in the loudspeakers of shortwave receivers around the dayside of our planet, and it appears to have hurled a faint coronal mass ejection toward Earth. Sights and sounds from the event are highlighted on today's edition of http://spaceweather.com.

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Posted : February 14, 2011 12:27 pm
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I vaguely recall reading years ago that this sort of thing can affect magnetic compass readings, too.

 
Posted : February 14, 2011 12:46 pm