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Power Grid, Internet Blockade, Aurora Borealis: What impact will this week's expected solar flare and geomagnetic storms have on Earth?

Power Grid, Internet Blockade, Aurora Borealis: What impact will this week’s expected solar flare and geomagnetic storms have on Earth?

US Agency for Marine and Atmospheric Monitoring (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA) Warning.

NOAA plans a number Geomagnetic storms On Earth This week. Moderate to heavy thunderstormsSolar flares. This will cause an unexpected event.

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Super Solar Flare: Scientists warn, what effects on the planet

Implications

Almost every day since January 2022, we have registered Coronal mass discharges. Or during massive solar flares The sun Launches plasma and magnetic field into space. From time to time, solar wind brings some of it back to Earth.

This is how solar flares should affect our planet: by causing more Geomagnetic storms Can disturb the Earth’s magnetic field Earth This can affect the Internet, satellites, power network or even GPS.

This Sunday, March 13, the Space Weather Forecast Center (SWPC) observed a G2 (moderate) geomagnetic storm. The G2 level alert is in effect on Monday, and the G1 (Minor) level alert runs on Tuesday, March 16th.

Effect: Northern lights can be seen at lower latitudes than usual. Just like here, in Scotland, this Sunday.

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