Solar winds are sinister phenomenons and have managed to stay under the radar for a long time. Reason is simple. Their role cannot be ignored when it comes to causing dangerous geomagnetic storms on Earth that can cause so much damage.
Among the last three alarming geomagnetic storms that struck our planet recently, solar winds were responsible for causing two of them.
And not only do solar winds bring these storms to Earth, they also intensify them and make them stronger and terrifying. But that is not all.
It turns out these frightful solar winds are also capable of causing geomagnetic storms on Earth without the presence of coronal mass ejections (CME).
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