Warnings about Hurricane Milton hitting Florida have dominated news reports this week. But there have been warnings from forecasters with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center about another storm brewing: a severe geomagnetic storm.
The Space Weather Prediction Center issued a "strong geomagnetic storm warning" and said conditions from this event might affect power grids and satellite operation and GPS systems in the northern part of the United States.
This, Blazek says, is due to the impact these storms have in our magnetic fields. Strong enough storms can damage or knock out satellites or produce a strong current within wires that cause them to blow out or even start a fire from heat. But Blazek says many of these systems are built to withstand impacts from geomagnetic storms.
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