Immediately after sending a message about this disaster off to a library listserv that was discussing cruise ship disasters, I received an Aurora Alert from the GSE-AA list:
Subject : [gse-aa] Auroral AlertGreenwich Mean Time-to-local-time conversion here (click on the appropriate flag).
Date : Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:43:52 -0800
There was a solar flare on the 16th of June. The shock from this flare
should reach about midnight on the 17th GMT. This means that the
distortion in the solar wind that leads to auroral activity should occur
during the night over the USA. This prediction may be as much as 10
hours off, but it would be worth it to check the northern sky tonight if
you live in the northern half of the US.
*Sigh*. My life is turning into a Deep Purple song. That's scary.
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