Massive Geomagnetic Storm Threatens Earth, Northern Lights Visible For Michigan
Massive Geomagnetic Storm Threatens Earth, Northern Lights Visible For Michigan The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued a rare, strong geomagnetic storm watch set to hit the Earth beginning on Friday, likely bringing about widely dispersed disturbances to power grids, spacecraft systems as well as radio communications. This unprecedented occurrence is predicted to enable people in Michigan observe the northern lights even outside of their northern borders. This is a G4 Alert which is the first since 2005 showing that this storm is quite severe. On Friday evening, the Space Weather Prediction Center division of NOAA updated their messaging indicating G5 or “Extreme” for the first time since 2003. A geomagnetic storm occurs when there are disturbances in the magnetosphere of the earth brought about by energy from solar winds usually following a mass ejection from the sun called coronal mass ejection (CME) which expels plasma and magnetic fields to...