"Officials issued an alert today around 12pm ET, warning that the incoming solar activity could trigger a severe geomagnetic storm, reaching the G4 level on NOAA's scale," reports the Daily Mail. The US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) predicted a G2 level solar storm today, a G4 tomorrow (Wednesday), and a G3 on Thursday.
The solar storm scale runs from G1 (minor) to G5 (extreme). A G4 is considered "severe" and could result in "[p]ossible widespread voltage control problems and some protective systems will mistakenly trip out key assets from the grid." Also: "Induced pipeline currents affect preventive measures, HF radio propagation sporadic, satellite navigation degraded for hours, low-frequency radio navigation disrupted, and aurora has been seen as low as Alabama and northern California (typically 45° geomagnetic lat.)."
I have had crappy reception all afternoon and evening....
ReplyDeleteI had a lot of radio static during my morning commute this morning.
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