Phantom storms: How our weather leaks into space

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427281.600-phantom-storms-how-our-weather-leaks-into-space.html?full=true ^ | 06 October 2009 | Jon Cartwright

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WHETHER it's showering spacecraft with lethal radiation, filling the sky with ghostly light, or causing electrical surges that black-out entire cities, space weather is a force to be reckoned with.

Thankfully, all is calm in space on the day that I speak to Bill Murtagh at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado. "Last week we saw a moderate storm, and that was about the most interesting event in months," he reassures me. "It's pretty quiet today."