Solar Storm 2024 Internet Explorer. A severe geomagnetic storm includes the potential for an aurora borealis — also known as the northern lights — visible as far south as alabama and. During the first full week of may, a barrage of large solar flares and coronal mass ejections (cmes) launched clouds of charged particles and magnetic fields toward earth, creating the strongest solar storm to reach earth in.
The storm created beautiful auroras, causing. The storm arrived at earth moving at 1.5 million miles per hour (about 2.4 million kilometers per hour), and reached the deep space climate observatory and the.