As the solar storm hits Earth, some communications will be temporarily disrupted, and blinding auroras will be seen from coast to coast until Friday. expected.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a geomagnetic storm warning, expecting North America to see the greatest impact on Thursday, but impacts can occur any weekday. I warn you that you might get it.
Although most effects are currently considered minor by experts, it is possible that this event will reach a level of 3 out of 5 on the Geomagnetic Storm Severity Scale.
At Level 3, NOAA states that power grid fluctuations may occur, satellite anomalies may occur, and radio and GPS signals may temporarily fail or weaken. I warn you.
"If you're an astronaut, you have to be careful. If you're an airline crew member, you travel many routes in the polar regions. "Very few," said Dr. Laurel Lakmeler, director of the Solar Geophysics Division at NOAA's National Center for the Environment. information.
Impact expected to remain north of 50 degrees geomagnetic latitude will be According to NOAA, the Northern Lights can be seen as far as Pennsylvania, Iowa, and northern Oregon.
The best time to see the Northern Lights is between 11:00 PM and 11:00 PM. Wednesday and Thursday nights at 4am.
Major cities included in potential viewing zones include Seattle, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Green Bay, Detroit, Syracuse and New York.
Space weather experts say the event is powerful and likely to be seen by more residents than a typical event because the sun synchronously releases clouds of plasma and charged particles.
The first eruption left the Sun on August 14 and traveled toward Earth at 1,000,000 miles per hour.
This event is known as a cannibalistic coronal mass ejection because there were two eruptions and the second, larger episode overtook the first in space. 44} NOAA's GOES-18 Satellite Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) helped forecast space weather and also captured eruptions leaving the Sun on August 15 and 16. The orange-red image above measured the plasma at 50,000 Kelvin. atmosphere of the sun.
The final light show produced by the North American solar storm occurred around July 19th.
The Northern Lights were so bright that photographers were forced to head to downtown Seattle. But we shot a colorful show.
According to NASA, the current solar cycle is expected to increase activity until a solar maximum occurs around 2025.
A typical solar cycle lasts about 11 years due to the complete loss of the Sun's magnetic field. It flips and influences the activity on the surface of the star.
