26 Apr 2025

Space weather: Graham Leonard

From Saturday Morning, 10:06 am on 26 April 2025
space weather

Photo: GNS Science

There's one type of weather you don't do small talk about. Space weather. It's caused by activity on the Sun's surface and can impact our national infrastructure, technology, and communications systems. Volcanologist and GNS principal scientist Graham Leonard joins Susie and Mihi to explain.

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