Does Solar Wind Affect the Weather?

solar_wind Electrically charged particles are continuously streaming away from the sun’s seething surface as a solar wind. When the particles encounter the earth’s magnetic field, the particles and the earth’s magnetic fields undergo complex interactions. Many scientists speculate that this influences widespread weather changes, and can affect long-term shifts in the climate.

Yet the solar particles do not reach the lower atmosphere where weather occurs, and their energy seems too small to set off chain reactions.There is no scientific proof that the solar wind affects our weather, but many believe it does.

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