The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) confirmed and issued a warning for a strong solar storm on Earth today, March 28. According to the space agency, this strong solar storm is expected to hit the Earth’s atmosphere over the United Kingdom. A solar storm is caused when the Sun launches electromagnetic particles or solar flares from its surface. And these bursts of energy are launched into space and turned into solar storms that sometimes have the potential to destroy all communications networks on Earth – from cell phones, satellites to electricity grids. However, there is a slight deviation from the exact time that the solar storm will hit the Earth. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), for its part, has predicted a different time for the solar storm to collide with Earth. Based on NASA’s forecast for a solar flare collision with Earth at midnight on March 28, while the US NOAA estimated that this will happen 18 hours before NASA’s forecast. Dr. Tamitha Skov, the popular space meteorologist, shared the information about the solar storm a few days ago in her online forecasts. Tamitha wrote on Twitter about the upcoming solar storm and her tweet says: “Fast hit or slow? An Earth-guided #solar storm is on its way to Earth, but NASA and NOAA forecasts differ on the timing of the impact. NASA says the impact will be close to midnight on March 28, but NOAA believes 18 hours earlier. Either way #aurora could reach the middle latitudes! (so)”
What will hit this solar storm on Earth?
He predicted that the solar storm would hit GPS reception and high-frequency radio reception and could cause some problems. Apart from this, the solar storm triggered dazzling saddles up to the middle latitudes, especially in the areas near the United Kingdom. He also said that saddles can be seen in areas such as New Zealand and Tasmania at the South Pole also due to the sufficient darkness in these areas. Recently, she shared many pictures of some exciting saddles in these areas from Twitterati. One of the tweets says, “The best Aurora of the year (so far) at Butchers Dam, Alexandra last night”, while another posted on Twitter “Nice healthy band is growing in the SW. Seeing it at @ NoDDAC_cameras… Oh, btw, this band is over the north MB We’re going fast now to the forefront we had earlier.
