Solar Flare Goes Off the Charts
January 16, 2013

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Forecasters said a solar flare 20 minutes ago could be the most intense they have seen in recorded history.

Space weather forecasters had to estimate its intensity, X-44 on a scale that only goes to 20, after sensors on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite could no longer measure it. They said the measurement could be off by plus or minus 2.

The flare will cause a tsunami of static on radio frequency used to navigate boats and planes. It's assumed that this flare will generate potentially destructive disruption of the electrical grid of almost all of the Countries along the planet as well as a massive quantity of satellites to be literally "fried".