'A lot has changed': NOAA is rewriting the book on how to rank solar storms

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'A lot has changed': NOAA is rewriting the book on how to rank solar storms
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Meredith is a regional Murrow award-winning Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and science/space correspondent. She most recently was a Freelance Meteorologist for NY 1 in New York City & the 19 First Alert Weather Team in Cleveland.

Jam packed issues filled with the latest cutting-edge research, technology and theories delivered in an entertaining and visually stunning way, aiming to educate and inspire readers of all agesA lot has changed in the last 25 years in regard to space weather.are now looking for ways to better communicate to the public about space weather events that could impact Earth. That's why NOAA is asking for public input on how to rewrite its space weather scales.

"Everybody understands what a Category 5 hurricane is or an EF-4 tornado, so we modeled our scales after those scales, essentially, which is one through five. That's what the citizens could appreciate, with one being minor and five being in the extreme condition."pertain to explaining the different types of environmental impacts they can have and their severity.

Geomagnetic storms contain charged solar particles that are funneled over the poles by Earth's magnetic field, where they interact with the atmosphere to create glowing auroras. Since the scales were created, their user base began to evolve expanding from a knowledge-hungry general public to different companies that became more engaged with how space weather can specifically impact the communities and clients they served.

"We had the major airlines here with us last year, and they all said, 'you guys need to change that, right?' We got severe turbulence, we got severe icing, and we know what that means, but severe radiation? Are people going to get off the plane vomiting because of radiation sickness, are they going to die? People just don't know and so that's another issue that we've had to address is the service," Murtagh said.

"We need to think about what decisions people make on the ground and go beyond just categorizing our hazards to really trying to communicate something about impacts. This is a challenge that crosses all of the hazard domains," Klockow added.

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