The Carrington Event
October 31st, 2020 | by sbieger |Part of my upcoming new section on Solar Dynamics and Space Weather:
The Carrington event of September 1st, 1859 - from spaceweather.com
“On Sept. 1st, 1859, the most ferocious solar storm in recorded history engulfed our planet. It was “the Carrington Event,” named after British scientist Richard Carrington, who witnessed the flare that started it. The storm rocked Earth’s magnetic field, sparked auroras over Cuba, the Bahamas and Hawaii, set fire to telegraph stations, and wrote itself into history books as the Biggest. Solar. Storm. Ever.”
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