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Massive Solar Storm Hits Earth

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    Expected to impact flights and wireless

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What will this storm bring Yahoo! actually a lot of threats really just talked about your -- let's talk about GPS as well the effects of the biggest solar system.

Storm in five years hitting earth right now as we speak -- the storm started with a massive solar flare Tuesday.

And rule as it -- outward from the sun shaking the -- -- magnetic field.

Now scientists say a massive cloud of charged particles and speeding toward earth.

At four million miles per hour now those particles started hitting early this morning and could disrupt utility grids airline flights.

Satellite networks and it GPS services especially in the northern areas.

After wondering just how GPS might be vulnerable consider this since technology has -- the last solar storm peak ten years ago NASA scientists.

Say some -- GPS systems could be at risk listen.

Satellites might it's -- and -- -- sort of busting believing it.

Ups and -- electronics.

Being Leo I'm so -- big -- for more it would have did you let -- and I believe.

-- -- the media as.

From the -- -- site has ordered the expedience that.

And air travel expected to be affected as well planes that usually fly over the North Pole could be re routed to avoid exposing pilots to too much radiation -- Mum what about our power supply well the electrical grid also -- experience difficulties you could say in 1989 actually talk about issues a strong solar storm.

Actually knocked out the power grid and -- back causing six million to lose power but these storm surge in light up the sky as well a beautiful light -- you can see there.

A solar flare back in January created some spectacular northern lights are watching and we could see a similar -- in the lights at their peak tonight.

Now the northern lights can be seen as far south as the Great Lakes states or lower.

But a full moon could make them harder to -- here in humans -- in most violent guy no issues for me yet.

Now Andy for you know not yet I'm gonna try to call you.

Commercial break didn't do that and send me a text message with that and -- four or email does get knocked off maybe everybody can take today off what do we do before GPS Arnott and nothing else -- -- -- knocked down back.

I would make it to work that the.

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