magnetic storm

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Colorful auroras appeared around Japan's Honshu and Hokkaido islands on May 11, 2024, sparked by an intense magnetic storm.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024

NBC, CBS, MBS constantly carried crisis news in spite of a magnetic storm which marred short-wave reception for three days and a hurricane which broke power and communication lines, flooded transmitters.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the heavy magnetic storm of November 1959, the moon relay got through to Hawaii when all other radio links failed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Striking the upper levels of the earth's atmosphere, they excited oxygen and nitrogen atoms into luminescence, also set off a magnetic storm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just when the signals from the Great Eastern ceased, a magnetic storm of singular violence had set in.

From The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)