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SpaceWeatherNews on Friday, October 9, still waiting on shock-wave impact, with a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf Coast. An M6.8 flare erupted in the last day and destabilized a filament: a wide, faint burst whose shock crossed about half the sun.
The show links an ASM Microbiology Spectrum paper on hypomagnetic conditions that recreate the loss of Earth's magnetic field. It says the harm was largest in the smallest insect groups and nearly absent in the largest, which it reads as close groups shielding one another, then jokes that the answer to the universe is 42. The linked EGUsphere preprint by Jia Jia and colleagues finds mesospheric ozone losses of about 30 to 80 percent in four Solar Cycle 25 storms, in May and October 2024, November 2025, and January 2026. The show notes those models did not reproduce the upper loss, says an 80 percent hit would not fit a normal magnetic field short of an extreme flare, and expects the daily ozone record to break again this weekend, with pollution controls helping lower down and the pole shift leaving the upper layers open to space energy.
The show links an ASM Microbiology Spectrum paper on hypomagnetic conditions that recreate the loss of Earth's magnetic field. It says the harm was largest in the smallest insect groups and nearly absent in the largest, which it reads as close groups shielding one another, then jokes that the answer to the universe is 42. The linked EGUsphere preprint by Jia Jia and colleagues finds mesospheric ozone losses of about 30 to 80 percent in four Solar Cycle 25 storms, in May and October 2024, November 2025, and January 2026. The show notes those models did not reproduce the upper loss, says an 80 percent hit would not fit a normal magnetic field short of an extreme flare, and expects the daily ozone record to break again this weekend, with pollution controls helping lower down and the pole shift leaving the upper layers open to space energy.