A solar flare hit Earth today, causing radio blackouts in Australia and New Zealand

interestingengineering.com ^ | 11/07/2022 | Ameya Paleja

[BenLurkin]

A medium-intensity solar flare hit the Earth's magnetosphere in the early hours of Monday, Spaceweather.com reported. It is unlikely that a coronal discharge will follow the solar activity, and if it does, whether will head toward Earth.

The recent solar flare came from the sunspot AR 3141, which has grown in size in the past 24 hours, EarthSky.org said in its report. The eruption was classified as an M5.2, even where M denotes the class of solar flares and is a medium-intensity eruption. In comparison, classes A, B, and C are low-intensity events, while Class X flares are wildly the highest-intensity flares.

The flares travel across space carrying radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, including X-rays and gamma rays. The higher the intensity of the flares, the greater, the damage they can cause. Luckily on Earth, the radiation first meets the Earth's atmosphere, and the energy transfers result in beautiful auroras in the sky.

Excess energy can sometimes knock down satellites, as SpaceX experienced earlier in the year, and the power grids experience energy surges and outages. On this occasion, the flare caused some disruption of the upper layers of the atmosphere, causing loss of radio signals and blackouts in the South Pacific region over Australia and New Zealand.

[BenLurkin]

Ping Me When the Internet Goes Down ping

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[telescope115]

Thanks for posting this.
My ROKU was going wacko last night, but we’re on the other side of the Earth,
so who knows?

[metmom]

Ping

[BenLurkin]

Was having some issues with an on-line game yesterday but thought it may have been traffic clogging packets moving through the system.

[Magnum44]

[Magnum44]

[fwdude]

Superman’s going to REALLY get strong from this.

[DarthVader]

That is why its been unseasonably warm for the last few days.

[Magnum44]

[Magnum44]

[frogjerk]

seems to be happening a lot lately.

[Oscar in Batangas]

That could have taken their online music selections all the way back to the didgeridoo era,

Sarc off/

[Colt1851Navy]

Ah, that was just the affects of all the internet filtering going on in the two liberal meccas, lets not get politically incorrect. Murder is one thing but internet crimes are serious business.

[fidelis]

THE SUN TO THE EARTH: "Take THAT!!

[TianaHighrider]

Curious coinkydink....

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[Organic Panic]

I just tried to log in and pay my credit card. Nothing is working on the site.

[Navy Patriot]

A solar flare hit Earth today, causing radio blackouts in Australia and New Zealand

No loss.

[dragonblustar]

ESO was working ok but when they do have issues it can be hell to get on.

[Texas Fossil]

And a blood moon tomorrow.

The last blood moon in 2022.