N4HY said: >Fox News has been reporting on the coronal flare
>event and saying that it will be arriving in waves
>over the next few days and that we should expect
>even our cell phones to be hit. Where they got
>the latter, I do not know but it sounded to me
>as if Chicken Little had joined the news staff.
Perhaps Fox News picked up this story and ran with it (which is from a
Canadian news agency):
"CFCN.ca
"POSTED AT 5:48 PM Thursday, October 23
"Scientists are warning about a strong geo-magnetic storm expected to hit
the Earth tomorrow.
"Forecasters say the storm has the potential to affect everything from cell
phones and power grids to other satellite communications.
"The disturbance is rated a G-3 storm. The highest is G-5.
"NASA scientists are calling it the perfect space storm.
"A largest cluster of sunspots caused an explosion on the sun, sending a
massive amount of gas and charged particles into space towards Earth.
"Scientist say they expect it to be the worst solar flareup to be felt on
Earth since a storm in 1859. That storm caused telegraph wires to short out
across North America and Europe."
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