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Carol Sun Jun 09, 2013 11:50 pm
Noctilucent clouds, clouds that can only be seen when the Sun is below the horizon are behaving differently this year acoording to NASA. The clouds, which are the highest in altitude of all the clouds are normally very faint, often too faint to be seen with the naked eye, but they become visible when illuminated by sunlight shining up from below the horizon. Their appearance earlier in the year than usual may hint that there are changes occurring in the Earths atmosphere. Todays sunspot number is 76. Sunspot AR1765 has the energy for M-Class flares and NOAA estimate the chances of an M-Class at 15% over the next 24 hours and of an X-Class at 0.1% over the same period. There are two coronal holes on the Earth side of the Sun and the winds blowing from them will hit on June9-10th and will give rise to auroras at high latitudes.
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What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night, the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
With deepest respect ~ Aloha & Mahalo, Carol