“Huge geomagnetic storm” hits Earth — “So intense it far overshadows anything this solar cycle” — Gov’t: “A great deal stronger than expected… eruptions combined into larger shock front” — WashPost: Severe CME “causing fluctuations on power grid” — Officials warn of “widespread voltage control problems”
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March 18th, 2015
AFP (emphasis added): A pair of solar eruptions… unleashed a severe geomagnetic storm that could disrupt power… US officials said… “These two eruptions combined into one eruption, one sort of larger shockfront” [NOAA’s Thomas Berger] said… Bob Rutledge, forecast lead at the Space Weather Prediction Center [said] “We did have kind of the G1, minor level… We have seen intensity that is a great deal stronger than originally anticipated.”
Guardian: Two blasts of magnetic plasma left the sun on Sunday, eventually combining and arriving on Earth on Tuesday about 15 hours earlier and much stronger than expected… Authorities warned of possible disruption to power grids.
Sky News: Skies light up across the world… following a huge geomagnetic solar storm… Authorities warned the bursts of radiation could disrupt communications and power.
Washington Post: A severe geomagnetic storm whipped through Earth’s magnetosphere on Tuesday, causing fluctuations on power grids… Space weather models predicted just a ‘glancing blow’… which instead have caused a stronger disruption here on Earth.
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