Geomagnetic Storm 2024 Australia Time. The geomagnetic storm has turned on another light show, with aurora australis and borealis dancing across the night skies in the southern and northern hemispheres on. A geomagnetic storm is a disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, typically triggered by solar activity on the sun.
Level g4 (severe) geomagnetic storm conditions were expected to arrive at earth from about 8pm aest on friday before reducing to g3, with a chance of reaching level g4 again on saturday. Neither the may eruption nor this weekโs is as severe as the carrington event, a solar storm that hit earth in 1859, disrupting telegraph stations, or another that in 1989 caused.