Experts point out that since the beginning of the new year, three days of magnetic storms have been recorded.

According to them, geomagnetic activity is increasing in the new year, exceeding the record recorded last year, as the frequencies of geomagnetic disturbances (Kp index = 4 – yellow level) and storms (Kp index = 5 and – red level) and in the first thirteen days of January exceeded the indicators of 2025, which were the highest in the past two decades.

Data indicate that eight of the first thirteen days of the new year, equivalent to 62 percent, were yellow and red, while in 2025, magnetic storms were recorded in 169 days out of 365, or 46 percent, which is a record high since 2005. over, since the beginning of the new year, three days have witnessed magnetic storms (23 percent), compared to 69 days (18 percent) in the year. The past.

Of course, it is too early to draw comprehensive conclusions, but “at the very least, it is not unlikely that last year’s records will be broken in the new year.”

According to experts, the main cause of magnetic storms is the large number of coronal holes on the Sun that cause disturbances in the solar wind, which in turn affects the Earth’s magnetic field.

Source: TASS