GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet

This is exactly the sort of thing that leads to people getting reincarcerated after their electronic monitoring devices mistakenly report them leaving their homes.

Some reporting I did on the topic a few years back: https://chicagoreader.com/news/many-on-house-arrest-in-cook-...

Wouldn't RTK help mitigate this, as the base stations would also be affected by the atmospheric disturbance?

*10 metres

Somehow, Selective Availability returned.

were other satellite positioning systems affected as well? was it checked that it wasn't just a misconfig on US command side?

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TL;DR:

1. Not today. November 2025. They don't make it clear.

1.1. One would expect that to be put in the title, when the article is written almost a year after that.

1.2. No, the article doesn't state that in the first paragraph.

2. It is unclear what is the source of the claim.

UPD: Commenter below found the source, but TFA doesn't make a good job of presenting that as a source of the 33 feet glitch claim, but rather posts another citation.

They should've just quote this and be done with it:

  During the storm main phase, an east–west elongated band of intense auroral brightness expanded equatorward, producing a horizontally extended strip of strong density gradients that favored the development of small-scale irregularities. These small-scale irregularities triggered pronounced amplitude scintillations (S4 > 0.5) and caused significant positioning errors exceeding 10 m—large enough to disrupt GNSS-dependent applications across CONUS for hours, particularly precision agriculture and autonomous transportation industries. [1]

4. The author has articles all over the topics. Everything is sensationalized.

5. Every presented link seem to have this awful Cloudflare js challenge.

Bad article overall.

P.S. Response to the false claim below - no, there's nothing about GPS in "the first 3 words of the article".

[1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026GL12...

not just space weather, I am pretty sure the atmosphere is being disturbed by toxic human activity both by accident and on purpose

I've run outside every morning for decades and used Garmin with GPS since 2015, I've never had so much trouble

Garmins finally supports dual-band (L1+L5) and BeiDou on newest models but it's still not enough to compensate, I have to use a Stryd footpod to guarantee accurate distances/speed

btw BeiDou GPS blows away US GPS for number of sats and precision but despite Russia's GPS being legal in US, technically BeiDou is not

* https://warontherocks.com/a-signal-point-of-failure-integrat...

* https://payloadspace.com/gps-faces-growing-competition-from-...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou#GPS_vs._BeiDou_Capabili...