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SPACE WEATHER OPERATIONS PREDICTS SOLAR STORM FOR EARLY FRIDAY
A complex sunspot region near the center of the sun
produced three major flares in the last 48 hours. A strong solar
wind was observed in response to the first two events. The three
Coronal Mass Ejections associated with the flares ejected billions
of tons of plasma and charged particles into space. The third
coronal mass ejection is heading towards Earth at a speed of
3 million miles per hour, according to the NOAA Space Environment
Center in Boulder, Colo.
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OCEAN SERVICE CREATES NEW CHART UPDATE WEB SITE —
Mariners now have a new and easier way to access updated
information for their nautical charts. Chart updates include
information on aids to navigation changes, hazards to navigation
or other essential information for safe navigation such as water
level depth conditions on maintained harbor channels, bridge
and cable clearances. |
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SCIENTISTS
TO MEASURE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS OVER NORTH AMERICA —
Government and university scientists will be hanging
out at the track this summer—only there aren’t any
horses and the track is located 30,000 feet above sea level.
The “racetrack” is a pattern that a highly instrumented
University of North Dakota Cessna Citation aircraft will fly
over the central portion of North America to measure greenhouse
gas emissions. |
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FORECASTERS SAY SIX TO NINE HURRICANES COULD THREATEN IN 2003
— Top hurricane experts from NOAA today said
the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season will likely have above normal
levels of activity. The outlook calls for the potential of 11
to 15 tropical storms, with six to nine hurricanes, and two
to four classified as major hurricanes. |
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