A huge solar storm is heading to earth. I suppose we are going to see a lot of disruptions to traffic usually using the 5 polar routes.
The storm erupted some 20 hours ago when some flights were already in the poplar regions. Granted that the heavier protons take quite sometime to reach earth, the EM components would have reached within 8 minutes.
I wonder if any flights in the polar regions in the last 36 hours reported any communication or navigation problems.
See this:
Huge solar flare heading for earth - Technology - NZ Herald News
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NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center