Important Takeaways:
- Red Alert! 6 Absolutely Gigantic Geomagnetic Storms Are About To Hit Earth, And Authorities Won’t Know Their True Power Until Friday Night
- A series of enormous geomagnetic storms is about to start pummeling our planet, and some of the most important technologies that we depend on are potentially at risk. For the very first time in nearly 20 years, the NOAA has issued a severe geomagnetic storm watch. We were initially warned that “at least five earth-directed coronal mass ejections” were headed our direction, but now it is at least six. These coronal mass ejections originated from Sunspot AR3664, which has now become almost as large as the infamous Carrington sunspot of 1859. It is being reported that Sunspot AR3664 is nearly 200,000 kilometers wide. That is about 15 times wider than Earth. Six gigantic coronal mass ejections that have been unleashed by this sunspot will hit our planet over the next few days, but authorities won’t know their true power until Friday night.
- Until authorities know the true power of these storms, we won’t know how much danger we are facing.
- Hopefully this will turn out to be a minor event
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A severe geomagnetic storm struck Earth Tuesday morning.
Scientists say the storm is rated as G4 on a scale that has a maximum of G5. The storm is the strongest to hit the planet during the current 11-year solar cycle.
The Space Weather Prediction Center says the storm could bring voltage control problems at many power systems. Also electrical systems and devices in areas like Alaska and Canada could be damaged by the intensity of the storm.
The storm could also impact GPS and other satellite based systems throughout the day.
The NWPC says the storm was created by sun activity on March 15th.
The last major storm to strike the planet was January 7th when a G3 rated storm passed over the planet.
Scientists tracking the sun’s activity say the star has gone quiet and the solar maximum for Solar Cycle 24 has likely ended as one of the weakest in over a century.
The weaker than normal solar cycle means that “space weather” has been relatively benign with geomagnetic storms that were much less than feared in early predictions of the solar maximum.
Scientists are warning, however, that in the downturn of weak solar cycles there is a significant possibility of serious solar storms. Strong solar flares are still possible as the sun begins to wind down over the next few years to the solar minimum.
History also shows that a weaker solar cycle means that temperatures on the Earth will be lower than average.
In the last two major periods of low solar activity, 1645 to 1715 and 1790 to 1830, the Earth recorded below-normal temperatures with the latter era being called a “Little Ice Age.” The weaker solar winds can lead to more clouds that keep the Earth cooler by blocking more solar rays.
Some solar scientists say the next cycle, Cycle #25, could be weaker than this one.
