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Most Powerful Northern Lights for Decades ‘Exposed Weaknesses’
- The most powerful Northern Lights in decades revealed weaknesses in the U.K.'s infrastructure, according to experts.
- The May 2024 storm reached the highest category, G5, on the U.S. NOAA's geomagnetic storm scale.
- Although the storm caused minor disruption, it exposed significant gaps in the U.K.'s resilience to severe space weather events.
- Experts recommend improving electricity grid monitoring, satellite operations, aviation preparedness, and space weather forecasting based on lessons from the storm.
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Scientists from the Space Environment Impacts Expert Group (SEIEG) identified "multiple" infrastructure threats.
·Missoula, United States
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In May 2024, the Gannon geomagnetic storm—the strongest in more than two decades—compressed Earth’s plasmasphere to roughly one-fifth its previous radial extent, while the same disturbance pushed auroras unusually close to the equator, bringing the northern lights to Mexico and Japan and the southern lights across Australia.
Arase measurements show exactly how the May 2024 Gannon storm drove the plasmapause from L=7 to L=1.5 in nine hours while auroral ovals expanded towards low latitudes worldwide. The post In May 2024, the Gannon geomagnetic storm—the strongest in more than two decades—compressed Earth’s plasmasphere to roughly one-fifth its previous radial extent, while the same disturbance pushed auroras unusually close to the equator, bringing the northern ligh…
·Australia
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