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A “severe” geomagnetic storm is coming: will the Northern Lights return to Italy?

Credits: NASA/SDO A geomagnetic storm of category G4 (therefore “severe” according to the official classification) is expected on Earth between today Thursday 10 October and tomorrow Friday 11 October 2024. To provoke one large coronal mass ejection produced by the Sun Wednesday morning generated by X1.8 class flare (X is the highest class). Given the amount of ejected matter and ...

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Two NOOA planes flew into Hurricane Milton, what they are and what they do: the video

Credits: NOAA Aircraft Operations Center Milton hit Florida as a hurricane category 3 with winds over 180 km/h, causing at least 4 victims, over 120 buildings destroyed and 2 million buildings without electricity. One of the most impressive images that have come to us before landfall they were those of the two planes that crossed the hurricane showing us its ...

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Why do they build wooden houses in America despite frequent hurricanes and fires?

In these hours theHurricane Milton and, as happens every time an extreme phenomenon of this type occurs, we ask ourselves: why are they there in the USA? so many wooden housesespecially in those areas such as the south-eastern ones which are often hit by hurricanes? In reality there are various reasons ranging from economic reasons to practices but which, as ...

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Who invented PDF and why did this file format become so popular?

If you constantly have to deal with files for work, study or other personal activities PDFyou may have asked yourself, at least once, who invented this file formatwhat its acronym means and why it is so popular. The Californian software house “gave birth” to the PDF format Adobe in the now distant 1992derived from Camelot projectled by John Warnockco-founder of ...

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Why Hurricane Milton Surprised Meteorologists: How It Growed So Fast

Hurricane Milton observed from the International Space Station on October 8, 2024. Credit: NASA THE’Hurricane Milton hit the west coast of Florida at 2:30 a.m. (Italian time) on October 10, 2024, resulting in fatalities, destroyed buildings, 2 million homes without electricity and spawning at least 27 tornadoes. It was a hurricane that surprised climatologists and meteorologists by its extraordinary rapidity ...

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Milton arrived on the coast of Florida, the technical aspects of the hurricane

Just two weeks after Hurricane Helene, the more violent never recorded to have hit the coast of West Florida and caused beyond 230 victims and extensive damagethe same region is facing a new natural disaster, theHurricane Miltonwhich struck the coast of Siesta Bay on October 10, 2024 at 2:30 a.m. (Eastern time) with the intensity of a hurricane of category ...

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Why do we fall for WhatsApp scams? The role of social engineering and how to defend yourself

The theme of scams on WhatsApp is increasingly known, “thanks” to the enormous number of hits scored by cybercriminals in recent times. According to what was stated in a report drawn up by Postal Policein 2023 they were treated 16,325 cases of online scamswith an increase of 6 percentage points compared to 2022. This has allowed cybercriminals to collect something ...