A geomagnetic storm forecasted through Monday is expected to disrupt radio communications but making for great aurora viewing.
A geomagnetic storm is expected to last through Monday, possibly disrupting radio communications but making for great aurora viewing.
These high-frequency radio transmissions include aircrafts trying to communicate with distant traffic control towers.
NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado issued geomagnetic storm watches for Sunday and Monday as a « coronal mass ejection, » or CME, was headed for Earth. CMEs are large expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun that reach Earth within 15 to 18 hours.
