Apagón en España, última hora en directo hoy: Sánchez dice que "España, afortunadamente, está superando lo peor de la crisis y camina hacia la recuperación"
That’s not the way a grid would fail during a Carrington event: you’d see big induced voltages along an east-west line. What happened in this case were fluctuations without any notable geographical alignment.
I give this UK Met Office link because the US center, NOAA SWPC, may be subject to attack by MAGA fanatics. The US and the UK are the only western countries with 24/7 space weather operations centers. There’s another one in China but (not surprisingly) their area of interest for geographic impacts is China.
There’s only medium space weather activity at the moment, which is about as quiet as things get at this active phase of the solar cycle.
I’d say that we’re still in the nobody knows stage on what the cause of the grid outage is, though the two main theories are a cyber-attack or anomalous thermal fluctuations causing instability in long transmission lines. It’s probably best to withhold judgement until people who know what they’re doing have looked into it more.
That’s not the way a grid would fail during a Carrington event: you’d see big induced voltages along an east-west line. What happened in this case were fluctuations without any notable geographical alignment.
Anyway you can always check space weather at https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/specialist-forecasts/space-weather
I give this UK Met Office link because the US center, NOAA SWPC, may be subject to attack by MAGA fanatics. The US and the UK are the only western countries with 24/7 space weather operations centers. There’s another one in China but (not surprisingly) their area of interest for geographic impacts is China.
There’s only medium space weather activity at the moment, which is about as quiet as things get at this active phase of the solar cycle.
I’d say that we’re still in the nobody knows stage on what the cause of the grid outage is, though the two main theories are a cyber-attack or anomalous thermal fluctuations causing instability in long transmission lines. It’s probably best to withhold judgement until people who know what they’re doing have looked into it more.
Thanks!!!