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Good afternoon, folks.

We have a high-risk solar storm scenario shaping up for the weekend.

We are going to go over the details of this four-impact event, the what and the when,

and everything we should be watching for in the days ahead.

Let's begin with where it all started.

A big sunspot group on the south of the sun has unleashed several

X-class solar flares, including four that released coronal mass ejections of plasma directly at the Earth.

In the following shots, you can see the flashes of light, the solar flares, and the shockwave ripple

outwards through the solar atmosphere. Those are the signatures of the

eruptions, and we have a confirmation in all of the data and expert forecasts that four are on the

way. Coronograph images show that over the last 40 hours, four full halo eruptions have occurred.

They are labeled here, and each will strike Earth over the next two to three days.

The officials modeled the eruptions and have them beginning to arrive Friday night in the USA, which is early May 11th UTC time.

They have the first two combining into one CME, followed by the later plasma shock waves.

These forecasts can be off by up to 12 hours in most cases, so this is to be taken lightly,

but also, you might notice, there are only three eruptions here.

Noah has still not put the fourth eruption into their model, but we should assume it is coming. They'll probably

impact it in the hours ahead, and it will be impacting the Earth on the 12th. Interestingly, a fifth

relevant X-class solar flare just erupted at the same sunspot group, but it is turning away,

and it does appear the primary electromagnetic push was northward.

Also, the initial Soho data suggests most of the plasma will miss Earth out ahead of its orbit.

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