A heavy-duty solar flare erupted on the surface of the sun midmorning Thursday, and it appeared from early data that a solar storm from the X-class eruption was headed toward Earth.
"It looks to be headed in the Earth's direction," Alex Young of Maryland's Goddard Space Flight Center told the Los Angeles Times in an interview Thursday. But, he noted, that's based on a view from just one of two spacecraft monitoring the sun.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-solar-flare-20120712,0,6885961.story
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No power losses here.
Captured on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqnp66vaSSA
Susan's report is that it will hit 5 a.m. EDT Saturday.