Posted: 22:46, August 1, 2022 |  Updated: 02:26, ​​August 2, 2022  

Earth is under a solar storm warning for August 3 as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announces that there is a possibility of a small G1 class geomagnetic storm hitting our planet. A G-1 storm can weaken power grid fluctuations, knock out satellites and potentially cause auroras in areas around the North Pole — in which case electric colors will appear in the sky over Canada and Alaska. However, it is the weakest of the five classified by NOAA. The geomagnetic storm is due to a coronal hole in the southwest region of the sun’s face that is ejecting “gaseous material.” Mike Cook, who works at the Space Meteorological Enterprise, told DailyMail.com that the hole has boosted solar wind speeds by throwing solar winds into a stream. He also notes that it’s predicted to cause G-1 conditions, but we’ll have to “see if that materializes in the next 24 to 48 hours.” Scroll down for videos The geomagnetic storm is due to a coronal hole (pictured) in the southwest region of the sun’s face that is ejecting “gaseous material” NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center classifies geometric storms into five stages – one being the weakest and five being the strongest. And what is set for this week will have very little impact on satellites and technologies on Earth. It can, however, confuse migrating animals that use the Earth’s magnetic field as a navigation tool. This is because geomagnetic storms trigger electrical currents in the magnetosphere and ionosphere as the region shaped by the Earth’s magnetic field is compressed and disrupted. There was also a C9.3 flare fired from the sun on Sunday. C-class flares are small with few noticeable consequences on Earth, but they are fascinating. There was also a C9.3 flare fired from the sun on Sunday. C-class flares are small with few noticeable consequences on Earth, but they are fascinating. The flare looks like a broken circle exploding from the sun This one, however, didn’t explode from the side of the sun facing Earth, but it did explode enough to be captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory – a craft that has been surveying our massive star since launching in 2010. The flare was recorded late on July 31st. This graph shows that the flare was captured by satellites It takes 169,090 hours to reach the sun if you were traveling at about 550 miles per hour. “The C9.3 flare yesterday came from an area that technically isn’t yet in the Earth-facing disk, it’s just around the N.E. [north eastern] extremity,” Cook told Dailymail.com. And solar flares themselves don’t cause a geomagnetic storm, it’s only if a CME (coronal mass ejection) is associated with a flare and directed by Earth. The snake-like filament is CMEs, which are large ejections of plasma and magnetic field from the sun’s corona – the outermost layer of a star’s atmosphere. Earth experienced a solar storm on July 19 that brought with it stunning auroras across the northern US and Canada. Pictured is an image of the aurora borealis over Seattle, Washington Earth experienced a solar storm on July 19 that brought with it stunning auroras across the northern US and Canada. The storm made headlines at the weekend when Dr Tamitha Skov announced she had spotted a ‘snake-like thread’ on the sun’s surface on Friday – and it was moving towards Earth’s impact zone. The auroras were seen earlier Friday morning, just as the storm hit, filling the northern skies with stunning electric hues of purple and green. Cook DailyMail.com July 19: “There have been several CMEs [coronal mass ejections] explosions in recent days (solar storms), but there is also a Coronal Hole (the black hole-like structures) which is the central disk.’ “We should see an impact from this in the next 2-3 days.” And that’s right, the cosmic show isn’t over—the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) indicates that a G1-Class is expected to impact our planet beginning Thursday and late Friday.

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