A rare double burst of magnetically charged solar storms will hit Earth this weekend and may interrupt telecommunications.
The storms, known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, wouldn’t warrant special warnings, but their unusual close timing and direct path toward Earth has spurred the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Centre to issue an alert.
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