solar flare

Just got this which may affect propagation... and I would like to see aurora again at 40N. "EARTH-DIRECTED X-FLARE: Big sunspot AR1520 erupted on July 12th around 16:53 UT, producing an X-class solar flare and hurling a CME directly toward Earth. Forecasters expect the cloud to arrive on July...

Your signal may have been interrupted by a high intensity solar flare. A solar flare erupted from sunspot 1402 on Jan. 25. The flare was categorized as an M8.9 with a coronal mass ejection of S-3. The CME approached earth on 2012 Jan 24 at 15:04 UTC The flare is said to be the strongest...