Posted by Squatters Butterfly on Monday, July 9, 2012,
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-03/2012-heat-wave-almost-science-fiction-mind-bogglingToday is World Meteorological Day, and there's no better time to take a serious look at our meteorological surroundings than right now, here in North America. All across the continent, records have been smashed: from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, a heat wave like nothing we've ever seen before is hitting the U.S. and Canada, while out west, Oregon has gotten a new record for snowfall. Just what...
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Posted by Squatters Butterfly on Monday, July 9, 2012,
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/09/sun-erupts-with-strongest-summer-solar-flare-yet/By
Published July 09, 2012
| Space.com
The most powerful solar flare of the summer so far erupted from the sun Friday (July 6), the latest in a string of powerful storms this week from our nearest star, space weather experts say.
The sun storm occurred just after 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT) and registered as a class X1.1 solar flare — one of the strongest types of solar flares possible, according t...
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