That’s according to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, which said pilots reported radio interference across the United States between noon and 2PM ET on December 14th. The current solar cycle is stronger than expected, making disruptions like this more likely, but the NOAA forecasts an October 2024 peak, a year earlier than originally predicted. Anyway, here’s a NASA GIF of the eruption.
Wow, and I didn’t even notice our power grid failure, mobile electronics going haywire, or our magnetic poles flipping causing satellites to fall from the sky.
I mean, according to those cheap conspiracy documentaries, that should have done us in.
Most of that is bullshit, but our sun has produced flares capable of disrupting the power grid, just most of the time we’re not in their path.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
A flare will disrupt radio.
A coronal massage ejection causes those. They are associated with flares, but consist of charged particles that travel much slower than the speed of light.
A CME can cause aurora, radio blackouts, pipeline and power line current induction, satellite problems and worst scenario destruction of transformers.
The Earth’s magnetic field flipping is unrelated and appears to be roughly periodic.