In its 2013 Atlantic hurricane season outlook issued today, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is forecasting an active or extremely active season this year.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/23/noaa-predicts-active-2013-atlantic-hurricane-season/

Forecasters with NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center are closely monitoring an active region of the sun that is directed toward Earth. A coronal mass ejection shot off the surface of the sun on Friday, May 17 and is predicted to cause a carefully watched geomagnetic storm persisting into May 20, 2013.

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X-Ray image from a GOES satellite at 14:12 UTC on January 23, 2012. Credit: NOAA

Earth’s magnetic field is already full of activity from an Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). But all indications are another blast is headed our way from the strongest solar radiation storm since September,…