On Sunday afternoon, a magnetic storm began on Earth. It was initiated by a solar flare that occurred on Thursday. This is reported on website laboratory of X-ray astronomy of the Sun of the Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences (FIAN).
“A magnetic storm (weak, level G1) is currently taking place in the Earth’s magnetosphere,” the website says.
According to scientists, the magnetic storm began at about 15:00 Moscow time. According to preliminary estimates, the phenomenon will end on Monday afternoon.
Magnetic storms can cause false alarms to protect power systems, interruptions in satellite navigation and low frequency radio navigation problems, as well as interruptions in high frequency radio communications.
The Russians were warned of an impending magnetic storm on October 29. Then FIAN said that a solar flare would cause the largest magnetic disturbances on Earth in the past few years.
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