Rare Severe Geomagnetic Storm Warning: Impact of the Strongest Solar Storm in Over 20 Years on Earth and Potential Effects on India

Exploring the Rare Severe Geomagnetic Storm

The strongest solar storm to hit Earth in more than 20 years made landfall on Friday.

A powerful solar storm that struck Earth on Friday, May 10, is predicted to have an impact this weekend and in the upcoming weeks. An unusual alert regarding a strong geomagnetic storm was released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. From Tasmania to Britain, it has had a huge impact that has caused the Northern Lights to appear. Let us see whether there is any possibility of this storm having any impact on India or not.

A rare, severe geomagnetic storm warning is issued after a solar storm comes into contact with Earth.

As previously reported, an extremely powerful solar storm making contact with Earth this weekend could lead to the Northern Lights being visible across North America, as well as possibly causing communications and power outages. A few hours before noon on Friday, a solar volcanic activity reached Earth, prompting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to issue a rare severe geomagnetic storm warning. It was expected that the effects would continue into the next week and possibly the entire weekend.

NOAA states that signals between GPS satellites and ground receivers may be lost or weakened even after the storm passes. But any disorder shouldn’t last long because there are so many navigation satellites in operation, according to Rob Steinberg, a scientist at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center. A few of NASA’s scientific satellites might be in danger due to the rising radiation.

The space agency’s director of the Heliophysics Science Division, Antti Pulkkinen, stated that extremely sensitive instruments would be turned off if necessary to prevent damage.

Solar Storm May Impact Power Grids and Communications:

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, spacecraft controllers, and operators of power plants were all advised to proceed cautiously by NOAA. “Most people on Earth won’t have to do anything,” stated Steinberg of NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center. According to Dahl’s report, residential power lines are less likely to be affected by the storm than high-voltage transmission lines in the power grid. Furthermore, there might be an effect on satellites, which might cause problems for Earth’s navigation and communication networks.

Let us know what is solar storm.

As we understand the impact of the solar storm on Earth, the Sun has been generating powerful solar flares since Wednesday, which have led to at least seven plasma solar flares. The Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, can release millions of tons of plasma and magnetic fields with each explosion, called a coronal mass ejection. The NOAA reports that the flames appear to be connected to a sunspot sixteen times the diameter of Earth.

This is a portion of solar activity that is intensifying as it approaches the Sun’s 11-year cycle’s peak.

According to NASA, the storm does not pose any significant threat to the International Space Station.

However according to NOAA, increasing levels of radiation are the main cause for concern.

All of these activities are being watched by several spacecraft from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.

These are precisely the kinds of things we want to monitor,” said Antti Pulkkinen, director of the space agency’s Heliophysics Science Division.

Solar Storm Effects on Earth: India’s Story

You can be confident that India won’t be particularly affected by this solar storm in terms of its effects.
Since India is far away from the solar storm, it is expected that nothing will change and that life will carry on as usual.

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