{"id":136865,"date":"2022-03-14T19:02:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T02:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/officials-confirm-several-geomagnetic-storms-are-hitting-earth-this-week"},"modified":"2022-03-14T19:02:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T02:02:58","slug":"officials-confirm-several-geomagnetic-storms-are-hitting-earth-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/officials-confirm-several-geomagnetic-storms-are-hitting-earth-this-week","title":{"rendered":"Officials Confirm Several Geomagnetic Storms Are Hitting Earth This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/officials-confirm-several-geomagnetic-storms-are-hitting-earth-this-week2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sun is continuing its rowdy behavior, with flares and coronal mass ejections almost every day since mid-January. That means the inevitable has happened: some of those eruptions have blasted in the general direction of Earth, which means we\u2019re in for some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/geomagnetic-storms\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"solar storms\">solar storms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Space Weather Prediction Center of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/weather\/specialist-forecasts\/space-weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and the British Met Office<\/a> have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/news\/g1-g2-minor-moderate-watch-14-15-march-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">both issued advisories<\/a> for mild and moderate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/geomagnetic-storms\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"geomagnetic storms\">geomagnetic storms<\/a> over the next couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean we have anything to worry about; in fact, we\u2019ve already been hit by mild and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/news\/g2-storm-observed\">moderate<\/a> geomagnetic storms over the last couple of days, clocking in at G1 and G2 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/noaa-scales-explanation\">five-level solar storm scale<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun is continuing its rowdy behavior, with flares and coronal mass ejections almost every day since mid-January. That means the inevitable has happened: some of those eruptions have blasted in the general direction of Earth, which means we\u2019re in for some solar storms. The Space Weather Prediction Center of the US National Oceanic and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}