{"id":166157,"date":"2023-06-21T15:21:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T20:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/strong-solar-winds-cme-approaching-earth-could-trigger-g1-class-geomagnetic-storm-soon"},"modified":"2023-06-21T15:21:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T20:21:01","slug":"strong-solar-winds-cme-approaching-earth-could-trigger-g1-class-geomagnetic-storm-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/strong-solar-winds-cme-approaching-earth-could-trigger-g1-class-geomagnetic-storm-soon","title":{"rendered":"Strong solar winds, CME approaching Earth; Could trigger G1-class Geomagnetic storm soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/strong-solar-winds-cme-approaching-earth-could-trigger-g1-class-geomagnetic-storm-soon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just yesterday, an unstable sunspot named AR3335 exploded, producing a solar flare that triggered blackouts over the Atlantic Ocean. The resulting solar flare was M2.5 in intensity and caused a shortwave radio blackout. Solar activity has been on the rise for the past few months, and it is expected to increase further until solar maximum, the period of greatest solar activity during the Sun\u2019s 11-year cycle.<\/p>\n<p><b>Solar flare risk<\/b><\/p>\n<p>According to a <a class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spaceweather.com\/\" rel='nofollow'>report<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\">spaceweather.com<\/a>, NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) forecasters have observed multiple streams of solar winds hurtling towards <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tech.hindustantimes.com\/tags\/earth\" data-name=\"Earth\">Earth<\/a> from a coronal hole on the Sun\u2019s surface, and these could reach Earth tomorrow, June 21. Moreover, a CME is also expected to deliver a glancing blow on June 22. Both these events have the potential to trigger a G1-class Geomagnetic storm. It could also result in solstice auroras at high latitudes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday, an unstable sunspot named AR3335 exploded, producing a solar flare that triggered blackouts over the Atlantic Ocean. The resulting solar flare was M2.5 in intensity and caused a shortwave radio blackout. Solar activity has been on the rise for the past few months, and it is expected to increase further until solar maximum, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166157","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=166157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}