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| credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory |
The
coronal mass ejections that US Person told you about sometime ago are occurring now during the most severe solar storm in five years.
{03/06, "The Maya Did the Math"} The CME is expected to hit our planet today and cause some electromagnetic disruptions and a more southerly and lower Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis. Yesterday, a X5 class solar flare erupted on the Sun
[photo], the third and largest flare this week, but because the region of the Sun in which the flares are occurring, AR1429, is not directly in the middle of the Sun's surface from Earth's perspective, the CME will be a glancing blow. That situation will change by next week when the active area is in position to deliver a direct and powerful pulse of charged particles to Earth.
