US authorities have issued the first Severe (G4) Geomagnetic Storm Watch alert in almost 20 years as a powerful solar storm will hit the Earth today, with possibility of the Northern Lights being visible from Ireland.
US authorities have issued the first Severe Geomagnetic Storm Watch alert in almost 20 years as a powerful solar storm will hit the Earth today, with possibility of the Northern Lights being visible from Ireland.
It said at least five"earth-directed coronal mass ejections" were observed and expected to arrive as early as today and persist through until Sunday. Coronal mass ejections are explosions of plasma and magnetic fields from the sun and cause geomagnetic storms when they are directed at Earth.
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