MOSCOW, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- The number of days with magnetic storms on Earth in 2025 is on track to reach its highest level in a decade, Russian scientists said Wednesday.
According to a statement from the Laboratory of Solar Astronomy of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Earth has experienced 69 days with magnetic storms since the beginning of this year, up from 44 days in 2024.
The increase was even more pronounced in the number of days with geomagnetic disturbances, which totaled 164 in 2025, compared with 94 last year.
Comparable numbers of magnetic storm days on Earth were last recorded in 2015 with 79 days, and in 2016 with 69 days.
Scientists noted that the 2016 figure will almost certainly be surpassed during the remaining week of the year, as a large coronal hole on the Sun continues to affect Earth. ■