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Another Crack just Opened in Earth’s Magnetic Field
« on: September 26, 2020, 03:09:12 pm »
Electroverse by Cap Allon September 25, 2020

As predicted, yesterday’s sunspot (AR2773) turned out to be very short-lived, lasting barely half a day — it has already dissipated, meaning the Sun’s deep, dark, and drawn-out solar minimum persists with spotless days now reaching 190 in 2020 (or 71%).

AR2773 –and the magnetic froth encompassing it– did, however, manage to deliver some perturbations to Earth’s magnetic field. This agitation resulted in a G1-class geomagnetic storm which in-turn allowed solar wind blowing at almost 500 km/s to slip through a crack in Earth’s magnetic field.

The wind fueled stunning bright-green Auroras across the skies of the far-northern latitudes: “It was a great display–our first ‘big one’ of the season,” says photographer Markus Varik from Tromso, Norway.

Earth’s magnetic field is waning in line with both a Grand Solar Minimum and a Magnetic Pole Shift — these two independently occurring factors drastically reduce Earth’s magnetic field strength, the major upshots of which include: a) an influx of atmospheric Cosmic Rays meaning increased cloud nucleation as well as a heating of the muons in silica-rich magma which triggers large-scale volcanic eruptions; and b) outbursts from the Sun having a much larger impact here on Earth, meaning even relatively minor events such as this week’s G1 can produce surprisingly dramatic results — a) contributes to global cooling, while b) means trouble for the electrical grid.

More: https://electroverse.net/another-crack-just-opened-in-earths-magnetic-field/