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
The magnetic storm which disrupted communications Easter Sunday was probably started, thinks Professor Menzel, when the earth coursed through the tail end of a corona streamer.
From Time Magazine Archive
It all reflected, said Dr. A. G. McNish, authority on the earth's magnetism, in Washington last week for a meeting of the American Geophysical Union, the worst magnetic storm in a century.
From Time Magazine Archive
Associated with the current high sunspot activity, the magnetic storm caused transatlantic telephone communication by short-wave radio to go haywire.
From Time Magazine Archive
At first a favorite theory was, that communication had been interrupted by a magnetic storm.
From The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
