Massive Solar Storm Coming 2024 News. The large explosion of energy and light from the sun comes just days after earth was slammed with the biggest geomagnetic storm in more than 20 years. The flare has triggered a severe geomagnetic storm watch for the first time in nearly 20 years.
The national oceanic and atmospheric administration’s space weather prediction center (swpc) โ a division of the national weather service โ was monitoring the sun following a series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections (cmes) that began wednesday, may 8, 2024. The x3.98 flare peaked in the early hours this morning (may 10) at 2:54 a.m.