[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Evacuations are imminent.

[mewzilla]

Read the last paragraph of the article.

Talk about burying the lede.

🥺

[mylife]

I have not seen the aurora in the USA since I was a child in the 60s

[Openurmind]

https://www.solarham.net/

[moovova]

There goes my dash-mounted compass...

[HighSierra5]

At some point the Lord will deliver a disaster that will put the RAT/commie agenda on the back burner. But they’ll try to take advantage of the chaos anyway.

[I want the USA back]

Hopefully, facebook, twitter and instagram will be down and out for 3-4 days.

[bgill]

The sky is falling!

[metmom]

Is that for tonight or tomorrow night?

[Larry Lucido]

Planet Earth is blue, and there’s nothing I can do.

[ealgeone]

NASA predicts that we will most likely not see any disruptions as a result of this CME, but they do predict brilliant aurora, venturing as far south as the northern edge of the U.S.

[sauropod]

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[fruser1]

“that isn’t as scary as it sounds”

Unless you’re standing at the exact spot where magnetic field lines converge and enter the earth, in which case, you will be disintegrated.

[njslim]

The 1859 Carrington event, named for British astronemer Richarx carrington, caused such a geomagnetic storm that it overloaded telegraph lines causing sparks to fly out and start fires. Railroad tracks became too hot to touch as long metallic objects act as antenna to pick up the energy .

In 1921 was a similar smaller event, In 1989 a geomagnetic storm blacked out Guebec as it overloaded the power lines