Major Internet Outages right now
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Could be something big; but also important to keep in mind there's a rather large snow storm. Or at least we got several inches of snow in Chicago, no internet outage here though.
It was a geomagnetic storm that developed because of the solar winds that hit us yesterday.
Created a huge thunderstorm and knocked out the internet for a few hours.
From spaceweather.com:
THE SOLAR WIND IS HERE: Earth is inside a stream of solar wind flowing almost 600 km/s. First contact on Jan. 25th produced an unexpected G1-class geomagnetic storm, described below. Storm conditions are subsiding now. However, Arctic auroras are still possible (even likely) on Jan. 26th as the solar wind continues to blow. Aurora alerts: SMS Text.
AURORA SURPRISE: A stream of solar wind hit Earth on Jan. 25th. The impact sparked an unexpected G1-class geomagnetic storm. "Suddenly, the whole sky was moving and dancing. It felt like aurora was hitting us with a hammer onto the head," reports Markus Varik, who sends this picture from Tromsø, Norway: