Who cares about seasonally appropriate weather finally coming, you guys? The sun just farted in our general direction! According to officials the strongest solar flare in more than six years is "bombarding the Earth with radiation." Woot!
The flare was first noticed last night at 11 p.m. EST and will be sending radiation through Wednesday, with "plasma ejected from the sun" arriving Tuesday. According to SpaceWeather.com (which exists!) the storm is classified by NOAA as S3, which means it could cause "isolated reboots of computers onboard Earth-orbiting satellites and interfere with polar radio communications," but otherwise shouldn't hurt us too bad.
It will make, for some lucky folks further North, for some stunningly gorgeous auroras. And for the rest of us? Well, we get some scary/awesome NASA videos of the sun farting:
