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Solar Storm to Hit Earth Today Causing GPS and Radio Disruption (www.newsweek.com)
submitted 9 months ago by Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 43 points 9 months ago (2 children)

1pm ET. So it already happened?

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

either it has not happened yet or it has already calmed down because QRZ.com shows everything as normal

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Checking my image recordings the only thing I see as an ejection around 12 hours ago, so it would have to be a really fast burst to arrive today? Current Kp index is only at 2.3 which is pretty normal, and even NOAA's own forecast shows nothing happening. I'd say this event is a dud.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 months ago

Yep, thats prob the case

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

authentic question: can you explain your logic?

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not quite sure what you are asking for. So, I would need more information to be able to answer properly.

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't know what QRZ.com is, so I don't understand how the site being up lead to your conclusion. I'm not criticizing in anyway, but moreso just trying to understand because it sounds interesting to me. While I don't know the math, I love theoretical physics, and am wondering what I'm missing out on 🙂

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh, qrz is a website for amateur radio operators and it has data from another site that has solar information I pulled up QRZ to take a look at that solar information at a glance. And the geomagnetic field was quiet with an S1 to S2 radio noise level, which is extremely low.

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

cool! thanks for explaining it 🙂

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

I cant even find local news report on it.

After some brief research apparantly these are super common, sometimes causd moderate disturbances and this one is minor but was predicted to maybe last a bit longer.

Its super interesting sfuff that i wish was more common in everyday news reporting but this article Up here is mere clickbait.