{"id":143841,"date":"2022-08-09T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/unexpected-solar-wind-stream-hits-earth-at-372-miles-per-second"},"modified":"2022-08-09T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T22:24:07","slug":"unexpected-solar-wind-stream-hits-earth-at-372-miles-per-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/unexpected-solar-wind-stream-hits-earth-at-372-miles-per-second","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Solar Wind Stream Hits Earth at 372 Miles Per Second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unexpected-solar-wind-stream-hits-earth-at-372-miles-per-second3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Earth\u2019s magnetic field was pelted by a solar wind stream reaching velocities of more than 600 kilometers (372 miles) per second.<\/p>\n<p>While that\u2019s nothing too alarming \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/geomagnetic-storms\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"solar storms\">solar storms<\/a> often pummel our planet triggering spectacular auroras \u2013 what is weird is that this storm was totally unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweathergallery.com\/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=187446\">This event<\/a> was not in the forecast, so the resulting auroras came as a surprise,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SpaceWeather reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Earth\u2019s magnetic field was pelted by a solar wind stream reaching velocities of more than 600 kilometers (372 miles) per second. While that\u2019s nothing too alarming \u2013 solar storms often pummel our planet triggering spectacular auroras \u2013 what is weird is that this storm was totally unexpected. \u201cThis event was not in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143841","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}