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SpaceWeatherNews on what the episode calls the worst pole-shift news, tied to a solar record. The first linked paper is a flash report from the Russian Ionosfera-M satellites on the geomagnetic storm of 19-21 January 2026. The authors report a G4 storm with Kp 9 and a solar proton flux they call the highest of Solar Cycle 25 and of the 21st century so far.
The second paper finds that recurrent high-speed solar-wind streams are followed by a small, repeatable rise in the first Schumann resonance frequency at high-latitude stations. That response lines up more clearly with geomagnetic activity than with solar-wind speed alone.
The exceptional geomagnetic storm of January 2026
Schumann resonance frequency increase following recurrent solar wind stream onsets
The second paper finds that recurrent high-speed solar-wind streams are followed by a small, repeatable rise in the first Schumann resonance frequency at high-latitude stations. That response lines up more clearly with geomagnetic activity than with solar-wind speed alone.
The exceptional geomagnetic storm of January 2026
Schumann resonance frequency increase following recurrent solar wind stream onsets