The Earth has a magnetic field, the atmosphere is charged and ionized, the sun's particles that get flung out during a flare interact with the planet. We cross the stream of particles, and our atmosphere reacts to that star stuff, we react to that star stuff. We forget that the sun is 8 light minutes away, and the stuff it throws out takes days and weeks to hit us. It also doesn't have to hit us, we merely have to interact with it. We know that direct hits from solar flares can cause communications disruptions, damage satellites, etc. The sun has been particularly active, as it typically is this time of year, peaking around late September just in line with earthquake and hurricane/typhoon season. We recently passed the solar maximum, and now we descend to the solar meridian around late August, almost like Europeans plan dates accordingly? The tilting of the earth creates cooling in the upper latitudes, this cooling creates a downward draft as the air becomes cooler and denser. This is partly why Hurricanes tend to form this time of year. The earth tilts in a sine wave, that tilt changes the amount of radiation the earth receives and changes how the air rises and falls. Anyway just random thoughts.