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For anyone curious how severe a G4 is (like me), there's an overview here: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scal

For anyone curious how severe a G4 is (like me), there's an overview here: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation The scale goes up to G5, so this one is pretty serious.

yencabulator 2y ago
At the same time, it seems there's on average 9 events like this every year, so it's not very serious as far as a lay person is concerned. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation Average Frequency (1 cycle = 11 years) 100 per cycle
- JohnMakin 2y ago
  While this is true, not many of them hit earth... which these are. Which is why this is a thing now. They also aren't uniformly distributed over that time period.
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- Sightline 2y ago
  >SWPC's first G4 watch since Jan. 2005 >The last Extreme (G5) event occurred with the Halloween Storms in 2003. >so it's not very serious Why are there so many people misrepresenting information? What's the purpose?, we're just going to look it up ourselves and see that you were wittingly or unwittingly lying. https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/severe-geomagnetic-storming-likely-continue https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/severe-geomagnetic-stormin...