Storms originating from the sun are likely to hit the earth on August 3, the administration of marine and national atmosphere of the United States (NOAA) has warned. Solar storms will be weak but satellite disorders and the failure of the electricity network is likely, the agency said, according to independent.
Such conditions, known as geo-magnetic storms, occur when there is a coronal-ton plasma mass ejection with a magnetic field that is embedded from the sun to the earth. The sun magnetic field “interacts strongly” with “opposite oriented magnetic fields”, according to NASA.
“The earth’s magnetic field is then peeled open like an onion that allows energetic solar wind particles to drain the field lines to hit the atmosphere above the polar,” said the American Space Agency. “On the surface of the earth, a magnetic storm is seen as a rapid decline in the strength of the earth’s magnetic field.” When a geo-magnetic storm occurs, there is a local heating in the upper atmosphere of the earth.
“(This causes) extra resistance to satellites in the low orbits of the earth,” according to NOAA. “Local heating also creates strong horizontal variations in ionosphere density that can modify radio signals and make errors in the position information provided by GPS.”
This incident causes interference in the navigation system and causes “dangerous geomagnetic induced currents” in the dangerous “electricity and pipelines,” he added. Nasa has warned that solar activity exceeds predictions even though the peak in the solar cycle still exists to arrive.