Currently, the degree of disturbance of the Earth's magnetic field has reached G3 - "strong" - on a scale of five indicators, where G5 is "extremely strong" and G1 is "weak".
The G3 level means that there may be problems in power systems on Earth, including false alarms in safety systems and "boiling" of oil transformers. Interruptions in satellite and low-frequency radio navigation, and disruptions in high-frequency radio communications are also likely. In the middle latitudes, it will be possible to observe the aurora borealis.
"The storm is proceeding very unstable, and although everything is flooded in solid red on the graphs, in fact, there is a series of several storm amplifications and attenuations behind this," experts from the Laboratory of Solar Astronomy of the IKI RAS and the ISSF SB RAS note.
According to the forecast, the magnetic storm will end in the morning on April 17. tass.ru.
