Magnetic Storms Likely

MAGNETIC STORMS LIKELY THIS WEEK: NOAA forecasters have boosted the odds of polar geomagnetic storms on Jan. 4th and 5th to 65% as a stream of solar wind approaches Earth. The hot wind is flowing from a large hole in the sun's atmosphere. This image, from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows the yawning structure almost directly facing Earth on Jan. 3rd:

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