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Solar Storm to Hit Earth Today Causing GPS and Radio Disruption

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Solar storm to hit Earth today causing GPS and radio disruption

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Solar Storm to Hit Earth Today Causing GPS and Radio Disruption

www.newsweek.com /solar-storm-hitting-earth-gps-radio-issues-coronal-mass-ejection-1862699

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Will this affect my Super Mario 64 gameplay?
- only for the better, now's the time to set a new WR.
- It will make it possible to do the TTC glitch consistently saving half an A press
- Wario uses it as a cheat
- Just rainbow road.
  You'll need to play Mario Galaxy or Majora's mask for anything significant.
- It could corrupt the save data on your cart

1pm ET. So it already happened?
- either it has not happened yet or it has already calmed down because QRZ.com shows everything as normal
  
  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.
  
  authentic question: can you explain your logic?
- 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.

We're free now, throw your tracking devices at big techs faces

Oh, good! I might finally get a break from the buttplug I lost last week.

This is so fascinating and cool at the same time, crazy how things work around us!
- The biggest solar event in recorded history happened in 1859. A similar storm today would be devastating on our current way of life around the globe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
  
  Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
  The Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, peaking from 1 to 2 September 1859 during solar cycle 10. It created strong auroral displays that were reported globally and caused sparking and even fires in multiple telegraph stations. The geomagnetic storm was most likely the result of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun colliding with Earth's magnetosphere. The geomagnetic storm was associated with a very bright solar flare on 1 September 1859. It was observed and recorded independently by British astronomers Richard Christopher Carrington and Richard Hodgson—the first records of a solar flare.
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  I wonder if something like that hit today if it would fry all of our satellites

This cloud, if aimed toward the Earth, approaches our planet in around 48 to 72 hours, though some can arrive much sooner.
I didn’t realize there was that much variation in the speed stuff comes off the sun. Does it ever clump up, if fast ejections overtake slow ones?
- To give you a perspective on just how far away the sun is, if it were to blow up right now you wouldn't even see the light from the event for another 8 minutes and 20 seconds.

This is the best summary I could come up with:
A geomagnetic storm is expected to surge across the Earth's atmosphere later today as a plume of solar plasma hits our planet.
This chunk of the sun was spat out on Sunday as a magnetic filament erupted from the star's surface, with the coronal mass ejection (CME) set to collide with the Earth at around 1 p.m.
The CME collision could lead to geomagnetic storms as intense as G2-class or even G3-class, which may trigger GPS issues, satellite problems, and auroras seen much further south than usual.
Amateur radio & #GPS users, expect disruptions on Earth's nightside," space weather physicist Tamitha Skov posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday.
CMEs are triggered by magnetic activity on the sun's surface flinging out huge volumes of solar plasma.
"Whilst these storms cannot harm us or nature directly, they are disruptive and potentially very damaging to technology," Huw Morgan, head of the Solar Physics group at Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom, told Newsweek.
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Space Weather News - Dr. Tamitha Skov - 22 Jan 2024 https://www.yewtu.be.com/watch?v=41LGqYbxsvk

My GPS still doesnt work.. but maybe it's unrelated?
- Did it work before?
- Have you tried turning it off then back on? 3 times?

- Somebody from lemm.ee report this failure.
  
  Do reports only go to your own instance?

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