+  = SAFE

From Faux News: 

Solar Storm May Ground Aircraft, Overload Power Grids

The severe geomagnetic storm bombarding the Earth on Thursday was expected to disrupt radio, television and cell-phone communications worldwide and could force airlines to reroute passenger flights that normally fly over the North Pole.

Power-grid operators will have to make sure their systems do not overload from induced current, and satellites in close Earth orbits will need to have their positions constantly monitored as the atmosphere expands from the additional heat and frictional drag increases.

“It’s really hitting the Earth’s magnetic field pretty hard,” Joseph Kunches, lead forecaster at the NOAA Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo., told FOXNews.com. “It’s already affected HF [high-frequency] radio on the other side of the globe, as well as the astronauts aboard the ISS [international space station].”

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