Media Release: The BOM issues a warning for a G4 geomagnetic storm

https://media.bom.gov.au/releases/1224/the-bureau-issues-a-warning-for-a-g4-geomagnetic-storm/

8PM (right now) +/- 10 hours

Better call the tiberium harvester back in.

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Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y (3 replies)

The Bureau. Get stuffed! Some transient ceo having a wet dream about leading the FBI. It'll always be the BOM!

WaterWaiver@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Corrected, thankyou. I blindly took the page title.

Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Haha! Sorry, i wasn't aiming the vitriol at you. I'd assumed that was the page title used. All my vitriol is aimed at the BOMs leadership :)

WaterWaiver@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y

Little do you know that I'm secretly in charge of the Bureua Bureua Bureau. I believe https should be a premium feature that valuable customers will pay for.

gumnut@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Does this apply on the dark side of Earth? I.e. during night time?

makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y

My wife and I were wondering the very same thing

Geobloke@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

Ahhhh that would be why my covid vaccine been telling to take up arms for Bill Gates

bestusername@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Explains why my Wifi speaker keeps dropping off my network tonight.

shortwavesurfer@monero.town · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

No, it doesn't. It would stop satellites from communicating with Earth on those frequencies due to having the ionosphere in the way, but it would not stop ground-based equipment from communicating with other ground-based equipment on those frequencies.

bestusername@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 2y

Did I really need a sarcasm tag?

WaterWaiver@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Do geo storms affect up into the GHz where wifi sits? I can only find material talking about the ionisphere and frequencies up to HF :|

shortwavesurfer@monero.town · 5 pts · 2y

No, they don't. They would stop satellites from communicating with Earth on those frequencies through the ionosphere, but they wouldn't stop ground equipment from communicating with each other on those frequencies.