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Twin magnetically charged solar storms will arrive at Earth on Thursday and Friday, raising concerns that GPS signals, radio communications and power transmissions could be disrupted, “space weather” officials in the US have said.

Individually the storms, known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, would not warrant special warnings but their unusually close timing and direct path towards Earth prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Centre to issue an alert.

The first CME burst from a magnetically disturbed region of the sun on Monday night and other erupted on Wednesday, said centre director Thomas Berger.

“We don’t expect any unmanageable impacts to national infrastructure from these solar events at this time, but we are watching these events closely,” Berger said.

The sun is in the peak of its 11-year cycle, though the overall level of activity is far lower than a typical solar max.

Storms as powerful as the ones now making their way towards Earth typically occurred 100 to 200 times during a solar cycle, Berger said. “The unique thing about this event is that we’ve had two in close succession and the CMEs could possibly be interacting on their way to Earth, at the Earth’s orbit or beyond. We just don’t know that yet,” he said.

The highly energetic, magnetically charged solar particles could hit Earth’s magnetic field and disrupt some radio communications and degrade GPS signals, NOAA said. Past storms have affected the power grid, and operators and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) had been notified “just in case”, Berger said.

The storms might also trigger beautiful auroral displays along northern latitudes as electrically charged solar particles hit the atmosphere.