The heliogeophysics service of the Institute of Applied Geophysics, named after academician EK Fedorov, said that on Sunday, July 16, three powerful M-class flares occurred on the Sun. This has been reported institution website.
The publication states that the first outbreak occurred at approximately 11:26 am Moscow time, lasted about 14 minutes and caused disruptions in shortwave radio communications on Earth.
The second was recorded at 18:08, lasting about 15 minutes. The third outbreak was recorded by experts at 20:46, its duration was approximately 28 minutes.
Before that, scientists from the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center declarationa prolonged magnetic storm will cover the Earth from June 18 to June 24, with its peak falling on June 20.
During this period, people who are sensitive to weather conditions need to be careful.
Magnetic storms are a phenomenon caused by disturbances in the Earth’s magnetic field due to solar flares. G1 means a weak storm and G5 means an extremely strong storm.
Previously, physicists calculated where this works best to hide from a nuclear explosion.