Powerful geomagnetic storm brings northern lights as solar flare sends X-ray energy

Friday's G5 geomagnetic storm, the biggest since at least 2003, and energy waves from a sunspot are making satellite and radio interference, as well as blackouts, a possibilityThis is the biggest geomagnetic storm since 2003, and in some respects, may be even bigger.Compounding this is that the active region of the Sun that produced this geomagnetic storm is also producing a significant solar flare that is hammering us with an intense blast of X-ray energy.

Both the geomagnetic storm and the X-ray blasts are likely to continue through the weekend as more waves of energy are en route from that specific sunspot. While this seems like the peak tonight, we will remain in this heightened state until the sunspot rotates out of range of Earth early next week.What this means is we are quite vulnerable to satellite and radio interference and/or blackouts. In the last event, without the solar flare aspect, we had power grids fail in Sweden and South Africa. In addition, GPS and cellphones may be affected. This is more of a gray area, so it’s difficult to predict exactly what that would look like.

Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)

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