Federal Agency Issues Geomagnetic Storm Watch

Published on January 22, 2024

An advisory for a geomagnetic storm was issued for Monday and Tuesday by a federal agency after an eruption on the surface of the sun was detected on Sunday morning. The Space Weather Prediction Center, a subdivision of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), warned about the eruption—known as a coronal mass ejection—on Sunday. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, and on its website, the agency said that the “general public does not need to be concerned” about the solar flare, but it added that the northern lights, known as the aurora borealis, could be visible in a number of states....