When Earth Gets Zapped
Electrical storms exploded in South-East England , Moscow Russia , northern France Monday May 29 in the wake of an event on the sun reaching earth's magnetic field. The sun discharged a CME -coronal mass ejection -on May 23, easily enveloping our planet as the shockwave arrived on May 27 with strong magnetic connection to earth. The impact seemed at first to be weak but then the geomagnetic readings showed a significant disturbance of the magnetic energies of our planet -most easily evidenced by much more widely visible auroras in the northern and southern latitudes. Spaceweather.com reported on the effects in the US. New Zealand and Australian skywatchers were also suitably impressed @iangriffin tweeted a swag of glorious views from the dark skies near southern city of Dunedin NZ and Dr Tamitha Skov @TamithaSkov has arguably one of the best aurora feeds on Twitter Halo CME gave data for the shockwave on May 27..the vertical blue line at 14.43 UT showing multip