The sunspot let lose a storm of energetic particles, known as a coronal mass ejection at 3 a.m. ET Wednesday, according to forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The expanding cloud is expected to arrive midday Friday. It could produce a geomagnetic storm rated G3 on a scale that goes up to G5."


http://www.space.com/scienceastrono...orm_031023.html

Bad link....Try this

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solar_storm_031023.html

Originally posted by CNCadmin
The sunspot let lose a storm of energetic particles, known as a coronal mass ejection at 3 a.m. ET Wednesday, according to forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The expanding cloud is expected to arrive midday Friday. It could produce a geomagnetic storm rated G3 on a scale that goes up to G5."


http://www.space.com/scienceastrono...orm_031023.html

Perfect.

Now I have something to blame 5 broken 0-80 taps on.. :eek:

'Rekd teh Destroyer

A Colonal Mass Ejection? That does sound bad. :)

And my dos 5.0 / win 3.1 machine was supposed to self-destruct
when the clock ticked y2k. :D