[HoustonHam] FW: [VHF] Go North, young man ... Go North !!!

[Chris Boone]

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Space Weather News for Feb. 15,  2011

MAJOR FLARE:  Earth-orbiting satellites have  detected the strongest solar 
flare in more than four years.  At 0156 UT on  Feb. 15th, giant sunspot 1158

unleashed an X2-class eruption.  X-flares are  the strongest type of x-ray 
flare, and this is the first such eruption of new  Solar Cycle 24.  The 
explosion that produced the flare also sent a solar  tsunami rippling
through 
the sun's atmosphere and, more importantly, hurled a  coronal mass ejection 
toward Earth. This raises the possibility of geomagnetic  storms in the days

ahead. 
 
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