A strong solar storm is on its way to Earth tomorrow, Saturday

Ammar Al-Sakkji, President of the Jordanian Astronomical Society , said that as a result of solar activity that occurred a few days ago, the large sunspot, known as AR3664, threw five coronal mass masses towards Earth in a large way, according to the Solar Energy and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), in addition to models of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The American study indicates that these coronal masses will merge, which will increase the intensity of geomagnetic storms when they interact with the Earth's magnetic field.

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It is expected that the impact of these magnetic storms will reach during the next two days, especially tomorrow, Saturday, and their magnitude will be of the third degree (G3), and may rise to the fourth degree (G4) if all five coronal emissions merge, leading to the appearance of the aurora borealis at medium latitudes. To low levels throughout Europe and the United States of America, and the possibility of affecting high-frequency radio waves, communications and space navigation, and this is the highest geomagnetic storm since 2005, but there is no direct impact on humans in general.

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It is noteworthy that the largest magnetic storm to hit the Earth is called the Carrington Storm, and the current sunspot AR3664 is classified as the Carrington Storm that cut off telegraph communications in 1859.

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Sources:

Jordanian Astronomical Society