{"id":38229,"date":"2023-07-19T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T21:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=38229"},"modified":"2023-07-19T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T21:30:17","slug":"earth-may-see-minor-geomagnetic-storm-from-recent-powerful-solar-flares-noaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/earth-may-see-minor-geomagnetic-storm-from-recent-powerful-solar-flares-noaa\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth may see \u2018minor\u2019 geomagnetic storm from recent powerful solar flares: NOAA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">US authorities have issued a minor geomagnetic storm watch for the planet as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/16\/scientists-create-first-solar-flares-inside-a-laboratory\/\">scientists observed powerful flares<\/a>&nbsp;on the sun over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US Space Weather Prediction Center said the storm may hit Tuesday as it issued the \u201cG1\u201d storm watch on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A geomagnetic storm occurs when there is an exchange of energy from the solar wind into the space environment surrounding Earth, disrupting its magnetosphere,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/phenomena\/geomagnetic-storms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to the center<\/a>, which is a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The storms can create beautiful aurora but also have the ability to disrupt radio signals and navigation systems and create harmful geomagnetic-induced currents in the power grid and pipelines, the administration said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The center tracked&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/03\/solar-eruptions-flares-could-impact-earth-nasa-says\/\">two solar flares<\/a>&nbsp;on Friday and Saturday, which indicates that coronal mass ejections \u2014 large cloud-like expulsions of plasma and magnetic field from the sun\u2019s corona \u2014 are expected to reach Earth by Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ejections\u2019 landfall would then cause the geomagnetic storm, which is often experienced as a rapid drop in Earth\u2019s magnetic field strength. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/03\/solar-storm-could-cause-power-grid-and-satellite-problems\/\">The dip in magnetic power<\/a>&nbsp;typically lasts between six and 12 hours and can cause damage to satellites and communication devices, according to NASA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russian scientists also tracked solar flares over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US authorities have issued a minor geomagnetic storm watch for the planet as&nbsp;scientists observed powerful flares&nbsp;on the sun over the weekend. The US Space Weather Prediction Center said the storm may hit Tuesday as it issued the \u201cG1\u201d storm watch on Sunday. A geomagnetic storm occurs when there is an exchange of energy from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":30975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[289],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cww7news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/SUN.png?fit=700%2C455&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38230,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38229\/revisions\/38230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}