MEGAFLARE!

Have you seen what's going on with the sun the last few days? Here's the xray graph. The X-flare is off the scale - a new level had to be put in to rate the flare! The planetary scale is also off the scale. This is a real event - did you happen to hear about it on the news tonight or in the last few nights? Of course not. With us still locked into the hurricane season and a killer typhoon just hitting Japan (did you hear about that one?), I just wonder how much power these flares will pump into these storms?

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Dear Readers,
I am changing the comments utility from "Haloscan" to Blogger's comments program. So if you have comments on the blog that you wish to copy, please do so by monday (Labor Day). That evening I will be dropping all of the comments as I do not have the time to copy them all and replace them on the new system. If you want to make a comment between now and then, please use the comments link in the signature/date line immediately following the body of each post. Sorry for the inconvenience.
gary d. goodwin
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