A G4 level solar storm is now striking Planet Earth. As a G4 storm, it is one level below G5, the most intense level of storm. Auroras should be visible as far south as the central United States tonight. There will be radio blackouts and possible isolated power failures in areas where power lines are not properly grounded. The storm is accompanied by a powerful coronal mass ejection, which will reach the region of Earth on Sunday. Coronal mass ejections contain substantial amounts of very energetic material, and along with it, in some cases, effects on Earth’s weather. This is caused by changes in solar radiance that affect our atmosphere. 
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These glowing objects were allegedly filmed with a cellphone outside of a home in the town of Earl Shilton in England in the early hours of the morning one day last February. This is not a Chinese lantern, a drone or a balloon. It is not possible to determine altitude, but they could be ultra-high noctilucent clouds. The image would also be easy to create in a number of different ways. But if the witness is to be taken at her word, these would appear to be plasmas of some sort, and thus an unknown.
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More craters are being located in remote areas of Siberia, and some of them are massive. Russian scientists have now discovered seven of these craters, and believe that there are many more in the region. More worrying, like the unidentifiable explosive sounds and tremors that are being reported in the United States, their cause is unknown. The two phenomena may or may not be related. In the case of the Siberian craters, suspicion is falling on underground methane concentrations, which are being freed from frozen tundra, concentrating in pockets which are compressed by the weight of the soil above them until there is an explosive reaction. The sounds in the United States are not under any publicly known study, and there isn’t even any scientific speculation about their origin.
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It is believed that hundreds and possibly thousands of people have been killed when Tropical Cyclone Pam unexpectedly changed course and passed directly over the island nation of Vanuatu, bringing with it sustained winds of 175 mph and gusts well over 200 mph. "A disaster of this magnitude has not been experienced by Vanuatu in recent history — particularly in terms of the reach of the potential damage and the ferocity of the storm," said Sune Gudnitz, who heads the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the Pacific. So far, 44 people are confirmed dead, but most areas of the low-lying country still cannot be reached.

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