'Powerful solar flares' heading for Earth will make people 'feel unwell', says boffin

Meteorologist Mikhail Leus said that the flares essentially cause magnetic storms that tamper with Earth's makeup, and one Russian doc said some people even get sick as a result

The sun is 'seething' and is omitting 'powerful flares' that meddle with technology and make people feel unwell, according to top Russian boffins.

Meteorologist Mikhail Leus said that the flares essentially cause magnetic storms that tamper with Earth's makeup. "To put it in plain language, our sun is seething," Leus explained.

"Periodically, powerful flares occur on it, and some of them throw out solar matter 'on the way' to our planet. And if this matter gets to Earth, then, moving in space, it causes a disturbance in the Earth's magnetosphere, and we can observe the following consequences: either this is the polar lights, or some troubles occur with technology, with space satellites, or some people may feel unwell."

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Scientists have tried to establish a clear connection between headaches, high blood pressure, and joint pain with magnetic disturbances, and have been unsuccessful.

However, if a person has chronic diseases or a reduced adaptive capacity of the body, then they can react to changes in the atmosphere.

At risk are weakened people, people with chronic diseases, children, pregnant women. "Chronic diseases should be compensated, they need to be monitored so that there are no hypertensive crises, arrhythmia attacks," physician and nutritionist Elena Kudryashova said.

Experts earmarked the unsuccessful launch of several dozen Starlink satellites as evidence of the choas the storms can cause on technology. These happened to coincide with a magnetic storm in February 2022), caused by the ejection of solar matter.

Senior researcher of the IZMIRAN cosmic ray variations department, Natalia Shlyk, explained that Musk's satellites, having found themselves in denser layers of the atmosphere, could not cope with the resistance and burned up.

She said: "All enterprises that are related to space technology are required to conduct tests for the impact of high-energy particles, that is, those very radiation storms, and, accordingly, they are required to request space weather forecasts at the time of the launch of any satellites.

"I don't know why Elon Musk did not listen, because all the world's forecast centers really did transmit indignation on that day."

"A much more frequent and less dangerous example of the impact of magnetic storms on technology is some disruption of communications, radio communications, communications with spacecraft," Leus added.

"Communication is lost, a lot of different interference appears in the communication channel, then the interference disappears, communications are restored, and such phenomena pass without significant consequences."

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