[BVARC] BLOOMBERG: Solar Storms Are Back, Threatening Power Grids and Satellites

[John Mechura]

Doom Porn

On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 6:38 PM Mike Lambert via BVARC <bvarc at bvarc.org>
wrote:

>
> *Solar Storms Are Back, Threatening Power Grids and Satellites*
> A few days ago, millions of tons of super-heated gas shot off from the
> surface of the sun and hurtled 90 million miles toward Earth. The eruption,
> called a coronal mass ejection, wasn’t particularly powerful on the
> space-weather scale, but when it hit the Earth’s magnetic field it
> triggered the strongest geomagnetic storm seen for years. There wasn’t much
> disruption this time -- few people probably even knew it happened -- but it
> served as a reminder the sun has woken from a years-long slumber.
>
> Read in Bloomberg: https://apple.news/AV9Mbj2O-Q9eZWGACf-CW0A
>
>
> Shared from Apple News <https://www.apple.com/news>
>
>
> Have a good day,
> Mike
>
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