magnetic storm
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Colorful auroras appeared around Japan's Honshu and Hokkaido islands on May 11, 2024, sparked by an intense magnetic storm.
From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024
NBC, CBS, MBS constantly carried crisis news in spite of a magnetic storm which marred short-wave reception for three days and a hurricane which broke power and communication lines, flooded transmitters.
From Time Magazine Archive
One day last week a violent "magnetic storm" or disturbance of the earth's magnetic field broke out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Striking the upper levels of the earth's atmosphere, they excited oxygen and nitrogen atoms into luminescence, also set off a magnetic storm.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is hardly necessary to add here, that the effect of the aurora borealis, or magnetic storm, is totally unlike that of common or free electricity, with which the atmosphere is charged during a thunderstorm.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 by Various
