Canada's space weather agency warned Friday of a 'major geomagnetic storm' that was hitting the country and could have severe impacts on power systems, satellites and other infrastructure.
Canada's space weather agency warned Friday of a"major geomagnetic storm" that was hitting the country and could have severe impacts on power systems, satellites and other infrastructure.
Such events can cause faults in power grids, and Space Weather Canada says major storms like the one hitting Friday were also associated with very high risk of affects on geostationary satellites, and potential severe disruption to activities involving geomagnetism, including aerial surveys and directional drilling.
“When that CME arrives, our magnetic field starts to fluctuate and those fluctuations can have impacts in power systems … there can always be a danger that there could be an outage to the power system if these fluctuations get to be too big."Fiori said Canada’s power operators and scientists were closely watching.
A spokesman for electricity provider BC Hydro said it had been preparing for the solar storm, and such events could potentially cause serious damage to high-voltage transmission systems, leading to outages.
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