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
One day last week a violent "magnetic storm" or disturbance of the earth's magnetic field broke out.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
From the 28th of August to the 4th of September, 1859, a magnetic storm of unparalleled intensity, extent, and duration, was in progress over the entire globe.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)
