Two mid-game power outages this season for the Dodgers:
Saturday 25 Aug 2018 Dodgers vs Padres as described above.
Monday 31 July 2018 Dodgers vs Brewers power outage due to Mylar balloon.
I was at the Dodger game Saturday when the power went out….completely. It was the 12th inning, with the score tied at 4-4 (Dodger Vs Padres). This was a serious matter!
I thought I was joking when I told my friends “It’s probably caused by massive ground currents from a CME (coronal mass ejection)”. Lo and behold, when I woke up Sunday morning, I discovered that a surprisingly significant stream of energy from an earthbound solar filament hit the ionosphere at the same time as the outage.
The following chart shows measurements of the Earth’s geomagnetic field in the time period when the power outage occurred:
UTC is 7 hours ahead of PST, so the power outage at Dodger Stadium, which occurred in Los Angeles at 9:44 p.m., shows up on the chart on August 26th at 04:44 a.m. That appears to be exactly when the KP Index from…
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