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Magnetic storm   /mægnˈɛtɪk stɔrm/   Listen
Magnetic storm

noun
1.
A sudden disturbance of the earth's magnetic field; caused by emission of particles from the sun.





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"Magnetic storm" Quotes from Famous Books



... phenomenon seemed as if specially designed to accentuate the inference of a sympathetic relation between the earth and the sun. From the 28th of August to the 4th of September, 1859, a magnetic storm of unparalleled intensity, extent, and duration, was in progress over the entire globe. Telegraphic communication was everywhere interrupted—except, indeed, that it was, in some cases, found practicable to work the lines without batteries, ...
— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
... rapid than those which occur regularly every day. The needle may move back and forth in a way so fitful as to show the action of some unusual exciting cause. Such movements of the needle are commonly seen when there is a brilliant aurora. This connection shows that a magnetic storm and an aurora must be due to the same ...
— Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb


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