AN INCOMING solar flare could spark appearances of the Northern Lights across the globe this week. The massive volley of space radiation was ejected from our closest star on November 2 and is expec…
"Yet another spectacular halo CME directed towards Earth," the official SOHO Twitter account wrote this week.CANNIBAL FLARE"Piled together, the mish-mash of CMEs contain strong magnetic fields and compressed plasmas that can do a good job sparking geomagnetic storms," spaceweather.com said.
A G2 storm may trigger power system voltage alarms, while long-duration storms may cause minor damage to the power grid.On Twitter, space weather physicist Dr Tamitha Skov wrote: "Solar Do-Over! Once again an Earth-directed #solarstorm is on its way. In 1989, a strong solar eruption shot so many electrically charged particles at Earth that the Canadian Province of Quebec lost power for nine hours.
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