Posted on 08/12/2024 11:53:22 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
(NEXSTAR) – Geomagnetic storm conditions observed over the weekend strengthened Monday morning, creating a “major disturbance in Earth’s magnetic field,” the Space Weather Prediction Center said.
The storm reached a G4 level in strength — the second-highest on the scale, classified as “severe” — just before 11 a.m. Eastern Time. The geomagnetic storm conditions may continue into the evening as solar flaring continues, forecasters said.
“Severe levels is pretty extraordinary,” Shawn Dahl, service coordinator at SWPC, said in a media briefing earlier this year. “It’s a very rare event to happen.”
At the G4 level, impacts on our infrastructure are possible. When coronal mass ejections (which are basically explosions of plasma and magnetic material from the sun) reach Earth, they carry with them their own magnetic field, explained Robert Steenburgh, a space scientist at SWPC.
“When you superimpose that over long conductors, things like pipelines, and railroad tracks and power lines, it can induce current — and that’s electrical current that’s not supposed to be there,” he said.
What part of this planet will be exposed to the geomagnitic wave? Kinda important to the story, isn’t it?
The whole Earth is affected.
“If Trump hadn’t stopped the democrat “END SOLAR WEATHER BILL” these would never happen. This is all Donald J Trump’s and his ultra MAGA klan in congress’ fault.”
The compass on my phone is about 20° off.
Don't drive on coastal roads while relying on GPS. A couple cars went off the Devil's Slide cliffs here recently, near SF. (One intentionally, the other accidentally.)
Were all dead. Didn’t you get the message??
Nothingburger. Even G5s occur several times over solar cycle.
Astrophysics, my man.
You should know some [other than what the story says] before making scientific claims, unless you are one of those who posits contradictions out of boredom, because its not even close to how things actually work. Like leftit politics.
Not clear on what relying on GPS has to do with staying on the asphalt surface, for a human driver at least. Even less if one incident was a suicide.
Car telling you to turn on a road that isn’t the true path for traffic. It happens, and cars end up in swamps. Some of my sisters are gullible and follow wrong directions.
How hard is it to keep one’s eyes open?
And I spent the whole day inside...
/S
You shoulda got vaccinated.
We can only hope... a reset would be great.
All those electric cars and gizmos are messing up the Earth’s magnetic field. They must be banned before they cause a pole flip.
Do I really need to put a Ludite /sarc on this?
I’m super old fashioned and I have Delmorme Gazetteer Maps for all the states that I frequent.
What, sorry, I nodded off, could you repeat that, please..
A Kp index above 6 is to be watched.
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