• Question: is space weather connected to earth weather?

    Asked by jally to Adam on 19 Mar 2012.
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      Adam Stevens answered on 19 Mar 2012:


      No, but Earth weather is connected to space weather! The variation of temperature/humidity/pressure that happens on Earth and we call weather is really feeble compared to the universe as a whole. But all these properties can be affected by outside influences like solar variation. An increased amount of ultraviolet would affect the chemistry in our atmosphere, for example.

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