No tinfoil umbrellas required, folks.
A strong geomagnetic storm is expected to hit Earth on Friday with the potential to affect electrical grids and satellite communications. One of the largest sunspot clusters in years developed over the past three days and produced a coronal mass ejection, similar to a solar flare, at 7am GMT on Wednesday, forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. The disturbance is expected to produce a geomagnetic storm rated G3. A G5 storm is the strongest. A second sunspot cluster not yet visible from Earth could produce more geomagnetic storms in the next two weeks, NOAA said.
One little piece of information left out in the report: what time’s it gonna hit, and therefore who’s gonna get fried?! |