Parker Arts Lecture: Space Weather – What Is It All About?

Parker Arts Lecture: Space Weather – What Is It All About?

Join us for a free community lecture on March 4, 2026 at The Schoolhouse to learn about the impact and mitigation of previous and future extreme weather events in space.

Speaker: Shawn Dahl National Weather Service Space Weather Prediction Center

Space weather is a concern for our society due to its ability to disrupt or degrade certain types of communications and critical infrastructure technologies. Congressional and executive legislation has been passed to improve space weather science, forecasting and hazard risk planning as an extreme space weather event could adversely affect commerce and our way of life.

Learn how our government and various technological industries and operational sectors prepared and successfully mitigated the Extreme Geomagnetic Storm of May 2024, an unprecedented space weather storm with extreme solar flares and geomagnetic storm components that occurred over the course of three days.