{"id":213744,"date":"2025-05-10T13:14:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T18:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/its-been-one-year-since-the-most-intense-solar-storm-in-decades-created-worldwide-auroras-what-have-we-learned"},"modified":"2025-05-10T13:14:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T18:14:49","slug":"its-been-one-year-since-the-most-intense-solar-storm-in-decades-created-worldwide-auroras-what-have-we-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/its-been-one-year-since-the-most-intense-solar-storm-in-decades-created-worldwide-auroras-what-have-we-learned","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been one year since the most intense solar storm in decades created worldwide auroras. What have we learned?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The May 2024 solar storm, also known as the Gannon storm or Mother\u2019s Day solar storm, is now ranked by NOAA as one of the most memorable solar events<\/a> in history, and potentially the most powerful documented this century. It included a parade of powerful solar flares<\/a> between May 8\u201311, 2024, originating from a beastly sunspot group<\/a> that measured 17 times wider than Earth\u2019s diameter. According to NOAA, during this time frame, there were at least eight coronal mass ejections (CMEs)<\/a>, which are giant blasts made up of magnetic field and plasma, that targeted Earth. This resulted in the creation of extreme geomagnetic storm (G5) conditions, the highest on NOAA\u2019s space weather scale<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Gannon storm was a spectacular event in the sense that so many people got to see the aurora<\/a>, especially those living in areas that don\u2019t typically see it,\u201d Mike Cook, Space Weather Lead at MITRE Corporation, told Space.com<\/a>. \u201cBut, beyond that, it was a reminder that our sun is capable of producing these very disruptive events that can impact our critical infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The May 2024 solar storm, also known as the Gannon storm or Mother\u2019s Day solar storm, is now ranked by NOAA as one of the most memorable solar events in history, and potentially the most powerful documented this century. It included a parade of powerful solar flares between May 8\u201311, 2024, originating from a beastly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213744","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}