Is there any chance this started yesterday (Wednesday 7th)?
NASA Captures Second Biggest Flare of the Solar Cycle » Clarksville, TN Online
The sun erupted with one of the largest solar flares of this solar cycle on March 6th, 2012 at 7:00pm EST....
About an hour later, at 8:14pm ET, March 6th, the same region let loose an X1.3 class flare. An X1 is 5 times smaller than an X5 flare.
The models also predict that the leading edge of the first CME will reach Earth at about 1:25am EST on the morning of March 8th (plus or minus 7 hours).