{"id":228234,"date":"2024-05-10T15:22:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T19:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=228234"},"modified":"2024-05-10T15:23:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T19:23:54","slug":"world-told-to-brace-for-severe-geomagnetic-storm-today-the-first-in-nearly-20-years-which-could-bring-chaos-to-mobile-phone-networks-gps-satellites-and-power-grids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=228234","title":{"rendered":"World told to brace for &#8216;severe geomagnetic storm&#8217; today &#8211; the first in nearly 20 years &#8211; which could bring chaos to mobile phone networks, GPS satellites and power grids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h1>World told to brace for &#8216;severe geomagnetic storm&#8217; today &#8211; the first in nearly 20 years &#8211; which could bring chaos to mobile phone networks, GPS satellites and power grids<\/h1>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">The uncommonly powerful solar storm is expected to hit around midday Friday<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">It follows a series of solar flares that began on Wednesday, tipping officials off\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">The prospective storm could cause disruptions to GPS, the internet and power<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By ALEX HAMMER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM<\/p>\n<p>PUBLISHED: 23:55 EDT, 9 May 2024 | U<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A rare and powerful solar storm may occur in outer space today which could wreak havoc on earth, officials have warned \u2013 the first in nearly 20 years if it happens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">At least five streams of plasma, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), are heading toward Earth,\u00a0prompting the\u00a0National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to issue a severe geomagnetic storm watch for Friday into the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This is the first such alert aired since 2005 when Earth was hit with the highest dose of radiation in a half-century.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-13402759\/Severe-solar-storm-watch-alert-NOAA.html\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-13402759\/Severe-solar-storm-watch-alert-NOAA.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}