Twin solar storms arrive at Earth

Space weather experts say double event unlikely to cause problems but alert issued to power and communication networks

Twin magnetically charged solar storms will arrive at Earth on Thursday and Friday, raising concerns that GPS signals, radio communications and power transmissions could be disrupted, space weather officials in the US have said.

Individually the storms, known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, would not warrant special warnings but their unusually close timing and direct path towards Earth prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations Space Weather Prediction Centre to issue an alert.

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