[PapaBear3625]

Of course, yesterday, the British news was warning of massive solar storms that would destroy all technology.

I'm looking forward to having massive solar storms. Any glitches they cause will point out where we need to harden infrastructure against EMP. And no, I don't think solar storms will have any big effect.

[Clinging Bitterly]

In the last peak period we had some pretty big solar storms. There was a lot of atmospheric activity resulting in some disruption of normal radio propagation and auroras visible at very low latitudes. One storm, if I recall, was suspected of causing a comm satellite outage but the evidence is inconclusive.

The hype over the phenomenon that can cause power grid failures is, I believe, overblown. But certainly periods of high activity would provide opportunities to study the issue more and take necessary precautions.