Space Weather Warning

Posted by Zonk on Sunday May 15, 2005 @06:13PM from the going-to-have-to-cancel-my-space-picnic dept.

SallyMac writes "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a Space Weather Warning. On Friday, May 13th, NOAA detected a 'geomagnetic storm of extreme proportions'. From the article: 'This event registered a 9 on the K-Index, which measures the maximum deviation of the Earth's magnetic field in a given three-hour period...The scale ranges from 0 to 9, with 9 being the highest. This was a significant event.' See the article on the NOAA site for more information." Spaceweather.com has details on the resulting auroras.

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Literally by sound+vision · 2005-05-15 19:49 · Score: 0, Troll

"This being my first aurora event, I had didn't know what to expect. I sat and watched for 45 minutes as the sky literally danced." So the sky became a person and started dropping it like it's hot? No, it didn't. I'm tired of people using the word "literally" to emphasize things with no regard for its meaning. Literally used to be one of those safe words (no BDSM refrence intended) that meant "No, I'm not exaggerating. I was really stuck 9 hours in traffic." Don't use words you don't understand the meaning of.