Work with freelancers, fiber. Im Zachary Cohen and washington. And this cnn hello and welcome everyone. Im michael holmes. Appreciate your Company Coming up here on cm man newsroom. A rare extreme Geomagnetic Storm caused by massive solar flares creating a dazzling celestial light show across much of the world so what does that mean for things like satellites, power grids, baps your cell phone will hear from the experts. And were sharing images from social media are our friends and families viewers like you now, a powerful and historic Geomagnetic Storm happening right now Around The World, the storm classified as extreme level five out of five phenomenon that last occurred more than 20 years ago. And its causing the northern and Southern Lights to dazzle many places that rarely, if ever, get to see them, have a look at the scene here in atlanta, georgia, in the southern us are short time ago parts of the midwest and even Northern California have high chances of seeing the aurora, the skies over the uk and ireland lit up in vivid colors early on friday night and there continues to be a high likelihood of aurora over parts of europe and asia. Meanwhile, in the southern hemisphere, the Aurora Australis bottled over new zealand as well as argentina, have a look at those colors. Are this all started when the sun erupted with a series of solar flares. And whats known as Coronal Mass EjectionsLaunching Particles directly at earth well have more on that in a moment. Do a bit of an explainer. Now ive a lights are expected to peak in the coming hours, although the storm will likely continue through the weekend, the Biden Administration says it is closely tracking the possible impacts told storm as it could disrupt communication satellites, and Power Stations electrical, utilities in the and canada are making preparations just in case scientists, bill nye, the ceo of the Planetary Society it says hes worried about scenarios like this i did a tv show. The end is not where we did six world ending scenarios or the one that really worries me is this very one. This one show episode number three. Where we get these coronal mass ejection cmes backtoback. So if you have really big ones, these things, if they happen 12 hours apart part hypothetically, you could turn off the electricity in the whole world, which would be catastrophic we, none of us really in the developed world could go very long without electricity or you can, their survival isnt so on but just objectively if nothing else the refrigeration goes bad and we spoil enormous amounts of food finance. Chad myers with more now and the historic solar storms and way you might see those auroras right . So everybody wants to know whether its gonna be visible, where i am, right . It will be visible across most of North America, maybe not all the way down to the gulf coast, but itll be close and its not a oneday event. So even if you have cloud cover tonight, you will still be able to see it tomorrow because theres more than one coronal mass ejection on the way. So what is it . Lets just a ball of plasma thats being shot at the earth. These things happen all the time, but rarely do we have them that goes straight at the earth. Think about how big 3dimension does. I couldnt go that way, could go to the back, could depends on where the sunspot is. Well, we know this is coming toward the earth because of what we call the halo effect. When you see the Cloud Mass Kind of come out of this. This is the sun right here. This is the sun being blocked by a disk. But when you see the coronal mass ejection come this way, its like looking at Somebody Blowing Smoke Ring at you, you know, its coming and you know, its on its way. Thats the same idea, same kind of smoke ring that were seeing. So yes, we have more than one still coming. So overnight a big ones still landing on the earths atmosphere. And we are still seeing that really bright, Colorful Cloud All The Way around the globe the only place youre not seeing it is where its sunny, where the sun is already come up and you cant see it, but it was very, very spectacular somewhere around, i would say maybe one z, one zulu time, greenwich mean time somewhere around 9 00 okay. Not quite 9 00 on the east coast of the us. But it was still light. We couldnt see it in North America. But another one and then another one and another one. This is still going to be going for quite some time. This is what the solar wind looks like. And i want you to think of it like a, the seismograph in when youre looking in california and you see the earth shake. Well, the sun wasnt shaking at all. The solar wind was doing just fine, being nice and flat but then all of a sudden around two, 30 or two 40, this afternoon, the earth began to shake literally. And so did the solar wind. And it came in very, very quickly, get this number around your brain. 1. 6 million Miles Per Hour thats how fast this solar wind is coming. Auroras seen farther south with a g5 big number. This is five out of five. This is as big as we get. There are still levels of five, but g5, were already up their Power Outages are likely and also satellite disruptions are also likely. Yes. Its certainly possible. Where the red coronas and then the most common are the green. This is what we see all the time across parts of canada, but the less common are the purples and the reds. We are seeing lot of them tonight daniel brown is an Associate Professor in astronomy at Nottingham Trent universitys In Nottingham, england. And thanks for being up nice and early porous i mean, when i hear coronal mass thats a i think well, thats easy for you to say. What is it its very, as weve hurt its plasma, it is very highly heated gas. So not our normal gas, but everything thats then stripped and charged particles galore in there. And this is the material living on the sun and in the high atmosphere of the sun. And given these kind of massive activities that weve had in the surface of the sun. This material is then just shot out from the sun and the corporate is a sunspot amazingly Massive Sun Spot region of high density Magnetic Field on the sun thats crackling full of energy. Normally theyre big and they can also be quite symmetric. This one was far more complex. And if you can imagine these Magnetic Fields as being bent sticks, theyre being twisted massively in the more they get twisted, the more energy do you build up . And then i snap throughout this material and thats snapping that material through a comes out. And this charged particles race than towards us on earth row, we are quite safe because we have our own Magnetic Field. But because theyre charged particles, our Magnetic Field protects us, but the amount of stuff coming in its our Magnetic Field substantially. So our shield braces against that and some of this material then comes in as it spirals around our Magnetic Field. It then comes towards the North And South poles as it comes down, this immensely fast moving particles then strike our atmosphere with oxygen and nitrogen and they start then to glow. And the more energetic, the more material in the fast they come, the more stronger this is. And the further south or north this can be seen. So thats why we have people like you on. I understood all of that. And that in an of itself is remarkable, fascinating aid for malaysia. Now, weve known that this was coming. What sorts of mitigating actions can be taken . Perhaps should have been taken to reduce potential impacts yeah. I mean, for one, if youre in high atmosphere, especially if youre out in earth orbit or in orbit the Satellite Systems are the ones i get quite substantially buffeted and they have certain failsafe systems that they can put themselves into already. Other parts is then hunger. The leinz of conduction are on the surface, the more impact they have. So youre talking especially then things like pipelines and things like power grids as well, where these are impacted quite severely, but we have learned there were massive Power Outages that occurred many decades kates ago and will have learned about decentralizing and expecting these peaks. Thats the thing its a brief peak that has built up in the charge and thats where we can then work towards protecting our system might my attention picked up when you started talking about the satellites because i was reading a potential impact could be on those. And theres a lot of them these days and we rely on them more and more so what can happen . Theres the radiation damage, the satellite i was reading that some could be sinking towards earth amazon play out what could have made its, its a complex system. So for one, what is probably the easiest to imagine i was talking about our atmosphere being buffeted and hit by loads of material. That means that our atmosphere becomes a bit warm and fluff and that also means that the conditions through which our low earth orbit satellites fly changes a little bit and therefore drag increases and they can then degrade in their orbits the other parts could be that charges being built up on the satellites. Are they therefore, theyre sensitive systems then fair start failing or are not appropriately working. The other part is youre change the charge or the higher atmosphere so that will cause a different kind of environment through which signals have to travel. And our gps is very sensitive. So it works with slight time differences to give us an idea that can drift a little bit. So that might have an impact upon that as well. But in many cases, this can be calibrated get it compensated for, as we know, thats why we have the space where the system is set up to give us this early warning. But in some cases it might be a big damage of smaller satellites or systems as well. But as we heard, its an extreme event, but theres Different Levels of extreme, so were not looking at the worstcase scenario at all. Were looking at something that hasnt happened since 20 years. But there are others out there that happened long time ago as the carrington event, ryan outlines, which is an immense power. Were nowhere near there well, thats, thats really a very were almost out of time, but i did want to ask you this. Were talking. About whats happening right now today, but what about the days, weeks, even months ahead . What sort of activity might be expect its a tricky thing to say. What were doing currently is were running into the peak of our Solar Activity, which happens every 11 years. So its not Something Like its never happened before, so we know the probability of these things will increase. And that will increase over the next year, at least. So were expecting these events to most likely happen more frequently. However, some i think like a g5 and extreme event statistically, youre probably expecting that maybe four or five times a day during an intact entire 11 years, sayyed expect to more activity, but probably Something Like this is a rare one. Fascinating and grading explanations. Daniel brown there In Nottingham up early for us really appreciate it. Thanks so much youre welcome. Now canada is no stranger to the potential disruptions and dangers from Geomagnetic Storms like this cnns paula newton is just downsize capital of ottawa with more well as you might have guessed, the Northern Lights are more of a common occurrence in canada and the storms, the solar storms do not even have to be as severe as the one we are seeing now the issue though is here normally the kinds of colors that youre seeing in the sky or greenish or a milky green kind of colors. Some people report seeing some blue this time with these spectacular colors, many people across canada who do not have cloud cover well be looking towards the sky and continue to look through the sky because of those spectacular colors that we are not used to seeing. The other thing people are keeping an eye on. Of course, is whether or not there will be any disruptive russians through anything technical, whether its the Electrical Grid or anything else in 1989 in the province of quebec, there was quite a widespread power our outage, that scientists still study today. But back then, they did not have the Satellite Technology that they have now, they have reinforced those infrastructure grids, but also they have more sensors, more Satellite Technology. They know a little bit more about what is going to be happening with these solar storms and have a bit more of a prediction in terms of what will happen so far, no disruptions throughout canada except people will be disrupted in their sleep as they continued to look skyward, looking for those spec tech get other colors. Paula newton, cnn, don robin, ontario after the break are closer. Look at the potential impacts of this massive solar storm. What it could mean for things like how agree. 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This is what the Northern Lights looked like from maine earlier online lighting up the sky and green and pink just spectacular singer and actor nick jonas shared this photo of the lights from the set of a movie that hes filming in ireland cnns Kristin Fisher explains how this historic phenomenon can bring about possible disruptions and breathtaking views throughout the weekend its called a coronal mass ejection. And those highly charged particles have been barreling towards earth at 500 miles per second ever since the first particles began striking earths Magnetic Field, friday afternoon. And forecasters expected to intensify into the night. And perhaps through the weekend, just think of gazillions of protons coming toward earth at the same time, theres also electrons in there. Theres also Magnetic Fields. And with nature i hit the earths Magnetic Field or any other planets Magnetic Field, they interact with that field and knows changes generate currents whic