Weekend’s geomagnetic storm was the strongest to hit South Africa in over 20 years

The solar storm which hit Earth on Friday and Saturday was the most severe to affect South and Southern Africa in 21 years, the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) has reported. The SANSA Space Weather Centre, located at the SANSA Space Science facility in Hermanus, in the Western Cape, issued a G5 geomagnetic storm warning, as well as several G4 warnings, over the period of the event. G5 is the highest rating on the international scale, and signals an extreme storm. It was the first ...