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It has now been confirmed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that the solar flare that emerged from sunspot area 9393 on Monday at 5:57 EDT was measured as X-22 on the 20 point solar flare gauge. This makes it a tie for the largest ever recorded in the 25 years the list has been kept.

The flare sent most of its energy away from earth, but a substantial amount is still expected to reach the planet. The leading edge of the storm passed earth at 11AM today, April 4, 2001. Spaceweather.com is reporting that intense auroras are likely, but should not reach the intensity recorded March 31.
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USA Today reported today that a recount of the Florida vote conducted by USA Today, the Miami Herald and Knight Ridder Newspapers shows that Bush would have led by three out of four standards, including the one that the Al Gore campaign wanted to use.

By the first and least demanding standard–counting almost any mark on a ballot as a vote–Bush won by 1,665 votes. Using the Palm Beach standard–dimples count if ballot shows other dimples, as do dangling chads, hand marks and pinprics–Bush won by 884 votes. The two-corner standard (at least two corners off chad; no pinpricks or dimples counted) has bush leading by 363 votes. Only the strict standard–the chad must be fully removed–shows Gore leading, and then by just three votes.
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The second most powerful solar flare since 1975 has erupted from the sun. This follows two huge coronal mass ejections that flooded earth with auroroas over the past weekend. All of this activity has been centered around sunspot AR 9393, the largest sunspot in years and one of the most active in recent history. This sunspot is 14 times the size of the earth and has now emitted three major eruptive events. The flare was an X-17 class event.

The most recent flare triggered a severe R-4 class radio blackout across the sun-facing side of the earth during the day on Monday, April 2, 2001.
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British scientists have done DNA testing on hair found on a tree in Bhutan which may be hair from a Yeti, and have not been able to match it to any known animal. The findings raise the possibility that the hair sample belongs to an as yet undiscovered species.

In Bhutan, an expedition team led by a Yeti hunter searched for the creature in a forest in the eastern part of the country, where the leader was convinced a Yeti was at large. ?He told us that he had found evidence of the Yeti in the hollow of a cedar tree,? said Rob McCall, a zoologist who was on the expedition. McCall?s team removed strands of hair from the tree and took them to the U.K. for DNA analysis.
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