Yesterday, while resting after my brother’s visit, I was quickly jarred out of my complacency by a loss of signal on my TV set, due to solar interference according to Direct TV. We lost our signal from 11:57 am to 12:03 pm, but March 6th seems to be awfully early in the season for this sort of problem to occur. Having been involved with satellite communications in the 1980′s, I felt that this situation should not happen until March 21, if then(plus or minus a few days).