WHY, THE UPCOMING SOLAR STORM COULD BE CATASTROPHIC? - NASA

NASA has issued warnings that another catastrophe is looming. It said it was heading towards the earth from the sun, which could lead to solar storms. Space meteorologist Dr. Tamita Skov has revealed that there is a chance that two big solar storms will be emitted from the sun. The intensity of these solar-powered solar storms has not yet been determined, with previous G2 and G3 magnetic solar storms reported. A total of five solar storms have hit the earth this year, and currently looming solar storms are on high alert.

What happens if a solar storm hits the ground: -
Scientists predict that solar storms could hit the earth and affect many areas. It is said to have an effect on power grids around the world causing power fluctuations. It is claimed that in places like New York it is possible to see the Aurora Borealis lights. Radio communications, revealing that the Internet will be disrupted. GPS-based systems are about to collapse.

Why they occur: -
They are formed due to the increase and decrease of the magnetic field. The magnetic poles of the sun vary. This is called the solar maximum. Scientists reveal that the Sun's magnetic cycle over-drives every 11 years.

When was the last Solar storm hit us?

The Carrington Event took place a few months before the solar maximum, a period of elevated solar activity, of solar cycle 10. On 1–2 September 1859, one of the largest geomagnetic storms (as recorded by ground-based magnetometers) occurred. Estimates of the storm strength (Dst) range from −0.80 microtesla to −1.75 microtesla.
The flare was associated with a major coronal mass ejection (CME) that travelled directly toward Earth, taking 17.6 hours to make the 150 million kilometer (93 million mile) journey. Typical CMEs take several days to arrive at Earth, but it is believed that the relatively high speed of this CME was made possible by a prior CME, perhaps the cause of the large aurora event on 29 August that "cleared the way" of ambient solar wind plasma for the Carrington event. Just before noon on 1 September, the English amateur astronomers Richard Christopher Carrington and Richard Hodgson independently recorded the earliest observations of a solar flare. Carrington and Hodgson compiled independent reports which were published side by side in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, and exhibited their drawings of the event at the November 1859 meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Because of a geomagnetic solar flare effect (a "magnetic crochet") observed in the Kew Observatory magnetometer record by Scottish physicist B. Stewart, and a geomagnetic storm observed the following day, Carrington suspected a solar-terrestrial connection. Worldwide reports on the effects of the geomagnetic storm of 1859 were compiled and published by American mathematician Elias Loomis, which support the observations of Carrington and Stewart. Auroras were seen around the world, those in the northern hemisphere as far south as the Caribbean; those over the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. were so bright that the glow woke gold miners, who began preparing breakfast because they thought it was morning. People in the northeastern United States could read a newspaper by the aurora's light. The aurora was visible from the poles to low latitude areas such as south-central Mexico, Queensland, Cuba, Hawaii, southern Japan and China, and even at lower latitudes very close to the equator, such as in Colombia. It was a sight never to be forgotten, and was considered at the time to be the greatest aurora recorded.