On Earth, the strongest magnetic storm in the last five years
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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On Earth, the strongest magnetic storm has struck in the last five years. Charged particles, generated by flashes in the sun, bombard the planet at a speed of 6.5 million kilometers per hour.
Meteosensitive people are advised to stay at home. Although the main blow of the storm will strike at night, the whole subsequent day the magnetic situation will remain unsuccessful.
The surface of the Earth is bombarded with a stream of charged particles that are carried from the center of the solar system at a speed of two thousand kilometers per second. The solar storm is not a rare phenomenon, but scientists have not fixed such a cosmic weather that was established around the star for this week for five years already.
Immediately two powerful flares on the surface of the Sun threw hundreds of millions of tons of radioactive particles into space. Some of them flew to Earth on Wednesday, but the main blow occurred on March 8.
Simultaneously with this outburst, coronal matter was emitted. This flash was bifurcated, with an hour difference.
The Earth's atmosphere and its electromagnetic field assume the main impact of cosmic radiation. The strongest effect from solar bombardment is fixed at both poles. The center of the forecast of space weather on this holiday works in a tense mode.
. This shock front from the Sun came to us and begins to fight with our magnetosphere, which tries not to miss it. These large fluctuations are a magnetic storm.
In this connection, for the time of a magnetic storm, airlines are recommended to change routes in order to avoid flights near the poles. The strongest magnetic storm in the history of observations was recorded in 1859. Then it caused the failure of telegraph systems throughout Europe and North America.
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