There is something that the media is not telling us...
In the last few days, a solar storm has occurred in several countries around the world...
It was not only in Portugal or Brazil, but in other countries.
As for Portugal, I saw lightning over Santiago and people from Setúbal also saw it, and in Brazil there are several bloggers reporting on the storms they saw there.

The sun is very active, I have been watching videos of the sun every day, captured by SOHO, directly on the NASA website.

Today I found this open directory from ESA, with videos, but strangely they look bad. Videos of the sun usually look red or blue, depending on the filters that SOHO applies, but these videos that I got from here look very bad, gray, full of interference, but you can see the plasma emissions that the sun has emitted.

And I'll tell you more:
I have proof, I saved several videos.
Since September 6th (that is, for 5 days in a row) the sun has been emitting plasma emissions thousands of kilometers away.
Solar protuberances are masses of plasma that are projected into the heliosphere. They are associated with the projection of coronal matter, which normally reaches the Earth's magnetosphere.

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