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Welp, that’s all the users. Thanks, capitalism.
It isn't all the users. It's localized outages across several networks. Also, this is solar flare related, which is cool :)
Yup. We hit an R3 in space weather conditions over the past 24 hours which means radio comms were impacted.
Space Weather
Thats enough to mess with low VHF but not enough to disrupt ground to ground UHF.
Is it tho?
Two solar flares happened. We don't know if it caused it.
You are correct fuck giver: NOAA says the flares were probably unrelated to the outages.
Right. Just as likely it is a new covid variant propagating through the 5g system.
Smh losers I'm on 9G already 😎
It's obviously not as likely...
But it's still stupid to immediately say this was due to solar flares.
or if you just check it, it would show a large solar flare impacting radio
NOAA says no: