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Space Weather Update~ Another M 5 Class Solar Flare and Geomagnetic storm

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DAYLIGHT METEOR SHOWER: This week, Earth is passing through a stream of debris from asteroid Icarus, source of the annual Arietid meteor shower. The strange thing about this shower is that it occurs mainly during daylight hours. At its peak on June 7-8, as many as 60 Arietids per hour will streak invisibly across the blue sky after sunrise. The best way to observe the Arietids is via radar. Listen to their echoes on Space Weather Radio.

 

NORTHERN LIGHTS IN THE USA: Last night, Earth passed through a region of south-pointing magnetism in the solar wind. This triggered a G2-class (Kp=6) geomagnetic storm. At its peak, the storm spawned Northern Lights as far south as the central USA. "Yes, I really am in Kansas," says photographer Clay Bramhallwho sends this picture from the plains city of Goff, KS:

"The aurora surprised me," he says. "I could see the lights streaking up and down."

Record floods continue in North and Central Europe (Video)

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Euronews.com - 6/6/13

 

 

 

Floods continue to wreak havoc across northern and central Europe.

The irony is that while the weather is clear, run-off means that river levels are continuing to rise.

In Germany, the army has been drafted in to help.

The last great flood was in 2002 – they are now saying that, along the Elbe, this one will be even worse.

 

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Did comet impacts jump-start life on Earth?

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EarthSky.org - 6/5/13

 

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Icy comets that crashed into Earth millions of years ago could have produced life building organic compounds.

Early Earth was not very hospitable when it came to jump starting life. In fact, new research shows that life on Earth may have come from out of this world.

Lawrence Livermore scientist Nir Goldman and University of Ontario Institute of Technology colleague Isaac Tamblyn (a former LLNL postdoc) found that icy comets that crashed into Earth billions of years ago could have produced life building organic compounds, including the building blocks of proteins and nucleobases pairs of DNA and RNA.

 

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Ancient Irish texts show volcanic link to cold weather

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Bbc.co.uk - 6/6/12, Matt McGrath

 

Annals written at the monastery at Clonmacnoise
recorded significant events including extreme weather

 

 

Researchers have been able to trace the impact of volcanic eruptions on the climate over a 1200 year period by assessing ancient Irish texts.

The international team compared entries in these medieval annals with ice core data indicating volcanic eruptions.

Of 38 volcanic events, 37 were associated with directly observed cold weather extremes recorded in the chronicles.

 

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Andrea, First Named Storm Of 2013 Season, Forms In Gulf

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Bill Chappell npr.org-June 05-2013

 

The National Hurricane Center is tracking Tropical Storm Andrea, currently in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, on its website.

 

 

Tropical Storm Andrea, the first named storm of the new hurricane season, has formed in the eastern portion of the Gulf of Mexico. Forecasters expect the storm to bring heavy rains to Florida before moving up the East Coast.

The National Hurricane Center Wednesday afternoon, as it issued a tropical storm warning for Florida's western coast from Boca Grande to the Ochlockonee River. A tropical storm watch is in effect for the next two days for a broad area between Flagler Beach, Fla., and Surf City, N.C.

 

 

Read More: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/05/188997284/andrea-first-named-storm-of-2013-season-forms-in-gulf

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