As if the Earth does not have enough environmental problems to deal with already, especially with the recent tornadoes that northeast America just experienced, there may be another anomaly coming that we might have to deal with… a solar storm! According to the Space Weather Prediction Center @ NOAA, a trusted source with space-related information, the sun erupted this past Tuesday evening, and the effects should start smacking the Earth at approximately 7 AM EST on Thursday (tomorrow).

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Solar storms are known to have three ways that they can possible disrupt technology on earth: magnetic, radio, and radiation interference. With this in mind, there may be a slight possibility that intermittent power outages may occur with thanks to the geomagnetic storm that may occur.

NASA has also been following this anomaly (commonly called CME – Coronal Mass Ejection) very closely, and stated the following information on their news site:

“Such a CME could result in a severe geomagnetic storm, causing aurora at low latitudes, with possible disruption to high frequency radio communication, global positioning systems (GPS), and power grids.”

Some news networks are already starting (or attempting to) communicate pandemonium to the public with “the end of the life as we know it” (seen below). This was also the premise of Y2K back in 1999.

To keep up with information about the upcoming solar flare, if you are a Twitter user, be sure to follow @solarstormwatch.

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The Twitter community has been active reacting to the news of the solar flare, and I have provided some of their tweets below:

What do you think of this upcoming solar storm? Do you think we are crying wolf like we did with Y2K, or should we be taking this more seriously? Please leave your feedback below in this post’s comments section.