Solar storm warning as ‘major blackouts’ threaten life on Earth – scientists raise alarm

The Sun constantly bombards the Earth with destructive charged particles in the solar wind.

Certain solar conditions, known as space weather, tend to cause chaos with the magnetosphere by driving highly energetic particles and currents around the system.

Due to this, space weather is often responsible for disrupting space-based hardware, ground-based communication networks, and power systems.

According to the paper, these solar storms can have an adverse impact on Earth’s surface and subsurface, leading to power outages, such as the “major blackout” that Quebec in Canada suffered in 1989.

Article source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1544681/solar-storm-warning-major-blackout-threaten-life-on-earth-bursty-bulk-flow