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

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

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

In the heavy magnetic storm of November 1959, the moon relay got through to Hawaii when all other radio links failed.

From Time Magazine Archive

It does not, therefore, necessarily follow that a spot does cause a magnetic storm.

From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon