At least one satellite has already been knocked out of action by
the storm. Japan's space agency said its Kodama communications
satellite had been temporarily shut down after malfunctioning.
The solar flare that caused the eruption burst out of a sunspot
at 10.54am yesterday.
Experts said it was the strongest flare seen in the past 30
years. The explosion caused a coronal mass ejection (CME) which is
now speeding towards Earth.
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I already have been affected twice by the recent solar storms this week. The first time I didn't know that a Solar Storm had occurred while I was on Maui, Hawaii on vacation with my family on the 4th of October. So, I didn't realize the storm hit earth while I was flying back to the mainland and California on the 8th. I felt incredibly altered from being exposed to the radiation from that experience.
Then about 3 days later on Thursday my wife and I had to drive south on business to Southern California. When we stopped in Buellton on my way south on 101 the Chevron there couldn't process my ATM card at the gas pump because their satellite was down too. So, the 4th must have been a smaller pulse and yesterday, October 11th the biggest pulse sent towards earth in 30 years came out of the sun towards Earth which is going to hit earth sometime tonight. Since we have already lost more than one satellite around earth because satellite owners are always pretty tight lipped about this sort of thing it is very likely other satellites or power stations or grids might go down tonight.
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