Northern Lights an effect of 'extreme' solar storms: NOAA
STORY: ::@yungalox via X
::Aurora lights across the Northern hemisphere
are a result of an “extreme geomagnetic storm"
::Diestedde, Germany
::That's according to the U.S.-based
Space Weather Prediction Center
::It warns radio, GPS and satellite signals
could be disrupted
::The Center says the storms were due to
a series of coronal mass ejections from the sun
The Space Weather Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) described the event as “extreme” conditions, and said the last event of a similar scale occurred in October 2003, when electrical installations in Sweden and South Africa were damaged.
The NOAA said geomagnetic storms were likely over the weekend as several coronal mass ejections were in transit towards earth.
NOAA said the cause was a large complex sunspot cluster that was 17 times the diameter of the earth.
