According to RCO News Agency, quoted by Space, astronomy enthusiasts around the world encountered a unique aurora borealis that was beyond the usual polar boundaries and lit up the sky during a severe geomagnetic storm.
Auroras were reported in the mid-latitudes, with sightings extending from Germany to the American Southwest, including New Mexico, during a night where geomagnetic conditions fluctuated rapidly between G1, G2, G3, and G4 hurricane levels.
This event was caused by the arrival of a fast solar coronal eruption that hit the Earth’s magnetic field at 19:38 on January 19th GMT. At that time, the geomagnetic conditions reached a G4 level storm, which is very intense. This solar corona eruption was emitted a day before, on January 18, during the release of a powerful X1.9 solar flare, and thus, in a short time, it traveled a distance of about 147 million kilometers between the sun and the earth.
After the initial shock of the solar coronal eruption path, it greatly disturbed the Earth’s magnetic field for several hours, resulting in repeated peaks of auroral activity. The level of the solar storm decreased during the night.
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