The land under the rule of geomagnetic storms

2017-09-29 10:18

The land under the rule of geomagnetic storms
The earth entered a stream of fast solar wind environment.

Magnetic storm third level on a five point scale is happening on the Ground due to the ingress of the planet in a stream of fast solar wind, reports Rus.Media.

The earth entered a stream of fast solar wind on Wednesday around 9:00 on the Kiev time, when the speed of the ambient plasma increased from 300-350 km/h to around 500 km/sec.

The first clash with the flow of the transferred magnetic field of the Earth in a disturbed state, in which it was before the end of the day. About midnight the speed of the solar wind blowing the Earth, increased to 650-700 km/h and is now at this level, exceeding the average value by almost half.

According to scientists, the earth will be inside a thread about another day. During this time the probability of perturbations of the magnetic field will be significantly improved. Your maximum storm is now a higher level to achieve. To completely calm down the Earth’s magnetic field has until mid-Friday, September 29.

The solar wind is a plasma stream continuously flows from the Sun’s atmosphere in all directions and fills the entire Solar system. His speed increases with distance from the star and at the level of the orbit of the Earth averages about 400 km/sec.

Since in the Sun there are centers of activity and areas of higher and lower temperature, this is reflected in the flowing speed of the plasma flows — it may rise or fall relative to the average value. The fastest solar wind streams flowing from the coldest sections of the solar corona — coronal holes.