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NJ on Alert: Severe Solar Storm Threatens Power and Communication
According to NOAA, space weather forecasters have observed at least seven coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the sun, with impacts expected to arrive on Earth approximately at 8 pm Friday, May 10, and persist through Sunday, May 12, 2024.
According to
DailyMail.com, Earth could see the worst solar storm in 165 years.
It follows a series of solar flares that began on Wednesday, tipping officials off. The prospective storm could cause disruptions to GPS, the internet and power. Officials have warned that there may be a rare and strong solar storm today that could cause chaos on Earth. If it materializes, it would be the first in almost 20 years.
This advisory is the first of its kind to be issued since 2005, the year that Earth saw its worst radiation exposure in fifty years.
This time, the "unusual event" might interfere with technological equipment like GPS and portions of electrical infrastructures, according to NOAA. However, it might also cover a significant area of the nation, all the way south to Alabama, in vibrant natural lights.
The watch follows the merger of two giant sunspots, which spewed at least two solar flares of the X-class, the largest class, and the M-class, the second-largest class, which are propelling a mass of supercharged plasma in the form of a coronal mass ejection, or CME, toward Earth.
Earlier this week, large CMEs were released by another sunspot.
The majority of the CMEs are predicted by
NOAA to collide with Earth between Friday afternoon and Sunday.
The Space Weather Prediction Center stated that the sunspot clusters are "magnetically complex and much larger than Earth," adding that their complexity and continuous growth in the region of the sun that experiences flares have raised the likelihood of solar flares.
