Near future
Contact us
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Architecture
  • energia
  • Transportation
  • Spazio
  • AI
  • concepts
  • Gadgets
  • Italy Next
  • H+
June 28 2022

Coronavirus / Russia-Ukraine

Near future

News to understand, anticipate, improve the future.

No Result
View All Result

News to understand, anticipate, improve the future.

Read in:  Chinese (Simplified)EnglishFrenchGermanItalianJapanesePortugueseRussianSpanish

Here is the geomagnetic storm: expected in the next few hours

The US and UK authorities confirm the coronal mass ejection from the Sun: a geomagnetic storm arrives on Earth in the next few hours. Indeed, four.

Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
in Spazio
Share18Pin5Tweet11SendShare3ShareShare2
geomagnetic storm
27 September 2021
⚪ Reads in 3 minutes
A A

For someone in the world, it's time to get the camera out. Space weather agencies predict a solar storm for today, Monday, September 27: moderate, with the possibility of auroras.

La National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in America and the British Met Office in the UK both predict a geomagnetic storm: it is the result of several solar coronal mass ejections (CME) and solar winds triggered by a "hole" that has opened in the corona of the Sun.

Impending geomagnetic storm, here are the effects

While there may be up to four CMEs hitting Earth, there's no need to worry. The storm will only reach a G2 level, which is relatively mild on the five-level solar storm scale, with G5 being the strongest level. What are the possible effects? At high latitudes, a G2 geomagnetic storm can cause fluctuations in the power grid. The orientation of the satellites can be affected, with an increase in resistance in low earth orbit. Eventually, high-frequency radio propagation can fade away. Possible and pleasant side effects: a few more aurora to film.

A few words about CMEs

The Sun's corona, the outermost region of its atmosphere, erupts, ejecting plasma and magnetic fields into space. If the CME is oriented towards the Earth, the collision of the solar ejected material with the Earth's magnetic field can cause a geomagnetic storm, also known as a solar storm.

It comes right towards us

"There are four CMEs that can affect the Earth", explains the British Met Office on its website. “Three of these could arrive separately or as a single combined geomagnetic storm during September 27th. A further CME event could take a look at Earth later on 27 or during September 28. A fast coronal hole wind can also hit Earth on September 27 and 28, although any effects of this wind are considered uncertain.

Maybe you are also interested

SpotmyUV, a "dot" on the arm tells us when to put sunscreen

NTU Singapore develops a smart device to collect sunlight

It is confirmed: the sunscreen chemicals penetrate the blood

The sun against smoking

There is also a low risk that CMEs and fast wind could affect the earth at similar times, providing a greater effect. Any improvements would then be slackened during 28 and 29 September.

British Met Office

The geomagnetic storm is a phenomenon that is part of the space climate. It occurs when the Sun becomes somewhat turbulent, in the form of CMEs and solar winds, causing disruptions to the Earth's magnetic field and upper atmosphere. We must expect more in the months and years to come: the Sun is currently heading towards the most active period of its 11-year cycle, called the solar maximum. During solar maximum, the solar magnetic field is at its maximum, as is solar activity.

Earlier this year, the Sun emitted its most powerful glow since 2017, so our star definitely seems to wake up. Its sunspot activity is expected to peak in July 2025, after which it will revert to solar minimum.

tags: Sungeomagnetic storm
Previous post

George Church: ready to bring the woolly mammoth back to life

Next Post

Samsung wants to “copy and paste” the brain map onto 3D chip networks

COLLABORATE

To submit articles, disclose the results of a research or scientific discoveries write to the editorial staff
  • BrintØ, an artificial island to produce green hydrogen

    BrintØ, an artificial island to produce green hydrogen

    148 Shares
    Share 59 Tweet 37
  • A plant-based, antimicrobial 'coating spray' keeps food fresh

    76 Shares
    Share 30 Tweet 19
  • Solar paint: where are we?

    378 Shares
    Share 151 Tweet 94
  • Liteboxer Bundle, the boxing machine for killer workouts

    763 Shares
    Share 304 Tweet 190
  • Move objects with thought? Telekinesis is a matter of technology

    141 Shares
    Share 56 Tweet 35

archive

Have a look here:

Invisibility
Technology

Scientists may have discovered the secret of invisibility

A joint research by the Universities of Vienna and Utrecht uncovers a light wave capable of producing the almost perfect invisibility of ...

Read More
musk die

“Dying is better,” says Elon Musk. That's why for me he is dead wrong.

1F71CC77 412E 4166 B79B 49C3F9BF3D66

5 real medical treatments that sound like science fiction

Pierpaolo Sileri, vicemin. Health: "with the coronavirus I lost my sense of smell and taste"

Pierpaolo Sileri, vicemin. Health: "with the coronavirus I lost my sense of smell and taste"

For Days, a canon for dressing (and reusing) for life

For Days, a canon for dressing (and reusing) for life

The daily tomorrow

Futuroprossimo.it provides news on the future of technology, science and innovation: if there is something that is about to arrive, here it has already arrived. FuturoProssimo is part of the network ForwardTo, studies and skills for future scenarios.

Subscribe to our newsletter

Environment
Architecture
Artificial intelligence
Gadgets
concepts
Design

Staff
Archives
Advertising
Privacy Policy

Medicine
Spazio
Robotica
Work
Transportation
energia

To contact the FuturoProssimo editorial team, write to [email protected]

Chinese Version
Édition Française
Deutsche Ausgabe
Japanese version
English Edition
Edição Portuguesa
Русское издание
Spanish edition

This work is distributed under license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
© 2021 Futuroprossimo

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Architecture
  • energia
  • Transportation
  • Spazio
  • AI
  • concepts
  • Gadgets
  • Italy Next
  • H+