Posted in climate change, Solar Cycle 24, solar energy, space, weather, tagged ABIA, Austin, Bergstrom, Burton Fitzsimmons, Canada, CBC, climate change, drought, earth, Little Ice Age, M-class, M-class solar flares, magnetic field, Maunder Minimum, meteorologist, Prince Edward Island, Robert Frost, SOHO, Solar Cycle 24, space weather, spaceweather.com, summer, Summer From Hell, sun, sunspots, Swine Flu, Texas, Waco, x-class flare on July 8, 2009 |
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updated January 25th, 2010. After a bang-up start to ss24 in November of 2009, the Sun, again entered a quiescent period, devoid of sunspots–until January 15 or there about, when an M class flare disrupted terrestrial radio reception, creating spectacular auroral light shows in Earth’s polar regions. Last week, the sunspot’s magnetic field erupted five times, producing a string of M-class [...]
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