How to Use magnetic storm in a Sentence

magnetic storm

noun
  • Maunder soon found that even big sunspots did not always coincide with magnetic storms.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • They are caused by magnetic storms that have been triggered by solar activity, such as solar flares or coronal mass ejections.
    — Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Northern lights, or the aurora borealis, occur when solar activity — such as solar flares or coronal mass ejections — triggers magnetic storms.
    — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, occur when solar activity, such as solar flares or coronal mass ejections, triggers magnetic storms.
    — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The sun’s activity rises and falls over an 11-year cycle that is measured by the number of sunspots, dark splotches that dot our star’s surface and that are associated with magnetic storms.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 19 Nov. 2025
  • For the rest of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century, magnetic storms, triggered by colossal solar explosions, repeatedly disrupted those networks.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Risks are higher during periods of greater solar activity, which follows an 11-year cycle that researchers track by tallying the dark sunspots that represent magnetic storms capable of producing outbursts.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Because John Herschel believed that the correlation between magnetic storms and auroras revealed both to be meteorological phenomena, the new observatories would be equipped with weather instruments that, in time, would permit the first global measurements of climate change.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • In the early 1900s, the pioneering American astrophysicist George Ellery Hale discovered that the sunspots that Galileo and others had traced weren’t blemishes but magnetic storms, regions of intense activity that waxed and waned on the 11-year solar cycle.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 May 2026
  • The research, led by scientists at the German research laboratory Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), proposes that the sun's flares, magnetic storms and bursts of radiation are shaped not only by internal processes but also by the gravitational pull of Venus, Earth and Jupiter.
    — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2025

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