{"id":189114,"date":"2024-05-10T23:23:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T04:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/first-extreme-solar-storm-in-20-years-brings-spectacular-auroras"},"modified":"2024-05-10T23:23:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T04:23:07","slug":"first-extreme-solar-storm-in-20-years-brings-spectacular-auroras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/first-extreme-solar-storm-in-20-years-brings-spectacular-auroras","title":{"rendered":"First \u2018extreme\u2019 solar storm in 20 years brings spectacular auroras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-extreme-solar-storm-in-20-years-brings-spectacular-auroras2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON: The most powerful solar storm in more than two decades struck Earth on Friday (May 11), triggering spectacular celestial light shows in skies from Tasmania to Britain \u2014 and threatening possible disruptions to satellites and power grids as it persists into the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The first of several coronal mass ejections (CMEs) \u2014 expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun \u2014 came just after 1,600 GMT, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)\u2019s Space Weather Prediction Center.<\/p>\n<p>It was later upgraded to an \u201cextreme\u201d geomagnetic storm \u2014 the first since the so-called \u201cHalloween Storms\u201d of October 2003 caused blackouts in Sweden and damaged power infrastructure in South Africa. More CMEs are expected to pummel the planet in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The most powerful solar storm in more than two decades struck Earth on Friday (May 11), triggering spectacular celestial light shows in skies from Tasmania to Britain \u2014 and threatening possible disruptions to satellites and power grids as it persists into the weekend. The first of several coronal mass ejections (CMEs) \u2014 expulsions of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189114","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=189114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}