Preparedness Notes for Monday – July 24, 2017

July 24 – The late Jerry Ahern ^[1] passed away on this day, July 24th, in 2012. He is missed.

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From Spaceweather.com: “On Sunday July 23rd, a spectacular X-class CME emerged from the farside of the sun ^[2]. . . If this explosion had occurred 2 weeks ago when the huge sunspot was facing Earth, we would be predicting strong geomagnetic storms in the days ahead. Instead, the CME is racing away from our planet … and directly toward Mars.”