{"id":279459,"date":"2025-11-13T02:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279459\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T02:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:24:10","slug":"powerful-geomagnetic-storm-sparks-northern-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279459\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful geomagnetic storm sparks northern lights"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to the government website, \u201cGeomagnetic storms can affect power systems, pipelines, submarine cables, magnetic surveys, compass use, and directional drilling. These storms can be accompanied by ionospheric disturbances that could affect high frequency radio systems and the Global Navigation Satellite System signals.\u201d <\/p>\n

During an interview in May,<\/a> assistant professor of science at York University Jesse Rogerson, who has a PhD in Astrophysics, said there really isn\u2019t any way for modern technology to avoid this from happening. <\/p>\n

\u201cTo some degree we are a little bit helpless. You put a satellite in space to help you with communications and if that satellite gets shorted out, you can put redundant systems on it,\u201d said Rogerson. \u201cYou can have multiple computer systems and different ways of routing the power through the satellite, but if all of that gets shorted, then the satellite becomes dead and like, there\u2019s not much you can do about that.\u201d <\/p>\n

According to the Aurora Forecast,<\/a> the best time to see the Northern Lights is within two hours of midnight (10 p.m. \u2013 2 a.m.), although they could start around 7 p.m. Wednesday.\n <\/p>\n

It turns out, the current weather forecast will provide ideal conditions to watch the northern lights. David Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment Canada, said much of the province is seeing temperatures that are eight to 14 degrees warmer than normal for this time of year. Phillips said the warm weather is due to storms moving across the north, which are drawing up warm southern air.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re getting this warm air from the United States, so we don\u2019t have a lot of snow on the ground, which is not cooling the air,\u201d the climatologist explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is really kind of like a mid-November bonus \u2013 temperatures that are just unusually mild.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phillips said there might be a bit of snow and cooler weather ahead next week, but it shouldn\u2019t be a deep freeze quite yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not going to pay for it. People always worry (when) you get a week like this. \u2018Oh, nature is going to make up for it,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to turn a little cool for the next couple of weeks, but I don\u2019t think any polar vortex kind of concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n

The forecast for Friday calls for a high of 13 \u00b0C. in Prince Albert, 11\u00b0C. in Melfort, 7 \u00b0C. in the Battlefords and Meadow Lake, while La Ronge will see highs around 5 or 6 \u00b0C. <\/p>\n

\u2013 With files from CKOM<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

Ryan.Lambert@pattisonmedia.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the government website, \u201cGeomagnetic storms can affect power systems, pipelines, submarine cables, magnetic surveys, compass use,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-279459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}