cleolinda:

On Thursday, the US government issued its first severe geomagnetic storm watch in nearly 20 years, advising the public of “at least five earth-directed coronal mass ejections” as well as sunspots covering an area 16 times wider than the earth itself. A severe geomagnetic storm, or G4, is the second-highest grade in the US government’s classification system.

Radiation from this activity will begin to hit Earth’s magnetic field on Friday and last through the weekend, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

This is the migraine storm I was talking about. I think it was last month that we had a previous geomagnetic storm, and I had a two-day hangover afterwards. And I don’t usually have migraines; I have weather (air pressure) headaches. And now they’re like, oh lawd he comin’. Get out your ice packs and your OTC painkillers and your magnesium supplements and your caffeine (or not, if that makes it worse). I am not looking forward to this.