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In the early 1990s, it was found that the strongest disturbances of the space–weather were associated with huge ejections of plasma from the solar corona, which took the form of magnetic clouds when moved from the Sun. It is the collisions of the magnetic clouds with the Earth’s magnetosphere that lead to strong, sometimes catastrophic changes in space–weather. The onset of a coronal mass ejection...