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~ Space Weather Update~SOLAR FLARE AND CME, Wind Speed Remains Over 500

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SOLAR FLARE AND CME: Southern sunspot AR1762 erupted today, June 5th, producing a long-duration M1-class solar flare that peaked around 0900 UT. The explosion hurled a right coronal mass ejection (CME) into space, shown here in a coronagraph image from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory:

 

Because the sunspot is approaching the sun's southwestern limb, the blast was not squarely Earth-directed. In fact, it might miss us altogether. Stay tuned for further analysis of the trajectory of the CME.

Meanwhile, more eruptions could be in the offing. AR1762 has a 'beta-gamma-delta' magnetic field that harbors energy for X-flares much stronger than the M1-class event that occured this morning. Solar flare alerts: text, voice.

Floods threaten Dresden as Prague river levels fall

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Bbc.co.uk - 6/4/13

 

 

The BBC's Christian Fraser reports from the Czech Republic, where the waters are rising at 15cm an hour

 

Cities in southern and eastern Germany are on high alert as heavy floodwaters swell rivers including the Elbe.

In Halle, an appeal has gone out to residents to help reinforce flood defences while Dresden is preparing for water levels 5m higher than normal.

 

For complete story please follow this link.

Life-Producing Phosphorus Carried to Earth by Meteorites

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Indiatimes.com- 6/5/13

Life-Producing Phosphorus Carried to Earth by Meteorites

 

 

 

Washington: A team of scientists has finally solved a 3.5 billion-year-old mystery showing that phosphorus - key element that produced life on Earth- was carried to Earth on meteorites.

 

The scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist found that during the Hadean and Archean eons - the first of the four principal eons of the Earth`s earliest history - the heavy bombardment of meteorites provided reactive phosphorus that when released in water could be incorporated into prebiotic molecules.

 

Read entire article at Indiatimes.com

Magical Comet Ison: Coming Soon to a Sky Near You

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Universetoday.com - 6/5/13, Stuart Atkinson

 

GFP Note: The following is taken from a Sept 25, 2012 article. But it is still an incredibly interesting read. Comet Ison is due to make an appearance this fall in a sky near you.

 

An image generated from Starry Night software of how Comet ISON may look on November 22, 2013 from the UK.

 

Fireballs Seen Over Regions Of Canada; Fireballs Seen Over Arkansas; Fireball Lights Up Eastern Seaboard; Comet Fragments Wows Stargazers

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Beforeitsnews.com - 5/29/13

 

Journal of sightings.

 

18 May 2013 – Michael Schoelzel, Mascoutah, IL, 22:40 cst 

I saw the last 2 seconds. It started east and traveled west. I was looking south. Super brilliant white & green. Super bright! Fragmentation, looked like it disintegrated with green fragments as it was breaking apart. Probably second most amazing thing I’ve seen, right after last week’s observation, interestingly in the same area of the sky from my point of view.Simply breathtaking! Something is really not right here, I’ve been fascinated with the sky all my life, but only in recent years, or better yet months, have I ever witnessed such wild activity, thank you for the interest, I feel better now having reported it!

18 May 2013 – Gerard Randolph Lewisburg, TN USA 10:30-40 Central Time 

Trade Winds Drop, Hawaii Gets Muggy

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wunderground,Adurey Mcavoy- June 4,2013

 

 

 

 

HONOLULU -- Part of what makes living in Hawaii so pleasant is the gentle breeze. Arriving from the northeast, it's light enough that it is barely noticeable but strong enough to chase away the humidity.

It's a natural draw to the outdoors. It is not uncommon to show up at a house to find its residents relaxing out in the covered porch or in the car port, not their living room, and enjoying the cooling winds - and a cool drink.

Nowadays, experts say, these breezes, called trade winds, are declining, a drop that's slowly changing life across the islands.

The effects can be seen from the relatively minor, such as residents unaccustomed to the humidity complaining about the weather and having to use their fans and air conditioning more often, to the more consequential, including winds being too weak to blow away volcanic smog.

Alaskan Bears Assist With Cleanup in Flood Stricken Town

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Weather.com - 6/4/13, Associated Press

 

 

 

GALENA, Alaska -- Yukon River flooding that knocked out power to the Alaska village of Galena has brought on a number of secondary problems, including how to keep bears away from hundreds of pounds of game meat that has spoiled in residents' refrigerators and freezers.
 
The flood caused by ice clogging the Yukon submerged some homes and washed out the road to the community's landfill. On Monday, emergency responders were developing plans to collect spoiled meat and fly it by helicopter to the dump, said Jeremy Zidek, spokesman for the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
 
For more on this story please see Weather.com

 

SOLAR WIND UPDATE

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SOLAR WIND UPDATE: The chances a geomagnetic storm today are subsiding as the solar wind slows from a peak velocity near 800 km/s on June 2-3. Even so, high-latitude sky watchers should remain alert for auroras. The current solar wind speed, 600 km/s, is still elevated and capable of provoking polar magnetic disturbances. Aurora alerts: text, voice.

AURORAS IN THE USA: On June 1, Northern Lights spilled across the Canadian border into more than a dozen US states, turning the sky purple and green as far south as Colorado and Nebraska. Subscribers to the Space Weather Alert System (text, voice) knew the storm was coming, but others were surprised:

"Last night, I drove to Crater Lake National Park to photograph the Milky Way rising above the rim," reports Oregon photographer Brad Goldpaint. "I was staring upward towards a clear night sky when suddenly, without much warning, the aurora borealis began erupting in front of me." (continued below)

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