Solar storm to hit Earth today causing GPS and radio disruption
www.newsweek.com
A coronal mass ejection will trigger a geomagnetic storm, which can impact technology and cause the Northern Lights to be seen further south.
      • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyzEnglish
        18·
        10 months ago

        Checking my image recordings the only thing I see as an ejection around 12 hours ago, so it would have to be a really fast burst to arrive today? Current Kp index is only at 2.3 which is pretty normal, and even NOAA’s own forecast shows nothing happening. I’d say this event is a dud.

        • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          I’m not quite sure what you are asking for. So, I would need more information to be able to answer properly.

          • BOMBS@lemmy.worldEnglish
            42·
            10 months ago

            I don’t know what QRZ.com is, so I don’t understand how the site being up lead to your conclusion. I’m not criticizing in anyway, but moreso just trying to understand because it sounds interesting to me. While I don’t know the math, I love theoretical physics, and am wondering what I’m missing out on 🙂

            • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
              12·
              10 months ago

              Oh, qrz is a website for amateur radio operators and it has data from another site that has solar information I pulled up QRZ to take a look at that solar information at a glance. And the geomagnetic field was quiet with an S1 to S2 radio noise level, which is extremely low.

  • ChrisLicht@lemm.eeEnglish
    131·
    10 months ago

    Oh, good! I might finally get a break from the buttplug I lost last week.

  • Lunch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    This is so fascinating and cool at the same time, crazy how things work around us!

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    41·
    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    A geomagnetic storm is expected to surge across the Earth’s atmosphere later today as a plume of solar plasma hits our planet.

    This chunk of the sun was spat out on Sunday as a magnetic filament erupted from the star’s surface, with the coronal mass ejection (CME) set to collide with the Earth at around 1 p.m.

    The CME collision could lead to geomagnetic storms as intense as G2-class or even G3-class, which may trigger GPS issues, satellite problems, and auroras seen much further south than usual.

    Amateur radio & #GPS users, expect disruptions on Earth’s nightside," space weather physicist Tamitha Skov posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday.

    CMEs are triggered by magnetic activity on the sun’s surface flinging out huge volumes of solar plasma.

    “Whilst these storms cannot harm us or nature directly, they are disruptive and potentially very damaging to technology,” Huw Morgan, head of the Solar Physics group at Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom, told Newsweek.

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  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    This cloud, if aimed toward the Earth, approaches our planet in around 48 to 72 hours, though some can arrive much sooner.

    I didn’t realize there was that much variation in the rate stuff comes off the sun. Does it ever clump up, if fast ejections overtake slow ones?

    • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyzEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      To give you a perspective on just how far away the sun is, if it were to blow up right now you wouldn’t even see the light from the event for another 8 minutes and 20 seconds.