Dennis Hollingsworth

SPACE WEATHER WARNING

It looks like fished under gamma or whatever rays. Check this out:

May 15, 2005 ? Forecasters at the NOAA Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo., observed a geomagnetic storm on Sunday, May 15, which they classified as an extreme event, measuring G-5?the highest level?on the NOAA Space Weather Scales...

"This event registered a 9 on the K-Index, which measures the maximum deviation of the Earth's magnetic field in a given three-hour period," said Gayle Nelson, lead operations specialist at NOAA Space Environment Center. "The scale ranges from 0 to 9, with 9 being the highest.

via Drudge.

Now it looks like it might not have been so bad after all:

UPDATE:

Scientists Say Sunshine May Prevent Cancer
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May 21, 1:15 PM (ET)

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE

(AP) Graphic shows three ways to get vitamin D; two sizes: (AP Graphic)
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Scientists are excited about a vitamin again. But unlike fads that sizzled and fizzled, the evidence this time is strong and keeps growing. If it bears out, it will challenge one of medicine's most fundamental beliefs: that people need to coat themselves with sunscreen whenever they're in the sun. Doing that may actually contribute to far more cancer deaths than it prevents, some researchers think.

The vitamin is D, nicknamed the "sunshine vitamin" because the skin makes it from ultraviolet rays. Sunscreen blocks its production, but dermatologists and health agencies have long preached that such lotions are needed to prevent skin cancer. Now some scientists are questioning that advice. The reason is that vitamin D increasingly seems important for preventing and even treating many types of cancer.

In the last three months alone, four separate studies found it helped protect against lymphoma and cancers of the prostate, lung and, ironically, the skin. The strongest evidence is for colon cancer.

Many people aren't getting enough vitamin D. It's hard to do from food and fortified milk alone, and supplements are problematic.

(AP) Dr. Michael Holick, Ph.D., of Boston University, poses in a tanning bed at the Boston Medical...
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So the thinking is this: Even if too much sun leads to skin cancer, which is rarely deadly, too little sun may be worse.