☀️🚨 1st Solar CME impact arrived. Level 4 impact, double whammy.

3 more to come, over this weekend. Posted 4 PM, May 05, 2024
Some are trying to convince me that this is a "conspiracy kook" source. So, here is information from others.

Brace yourself for potential blackouts and the failure of GPS systems, satellites, and Internet connections.
Because Solar Cycle 25 is about to rock our world with major solar storms as the cycle reaches its peak.
And the fun could start this weekend with 5 solar storms headed toward Earth – with Storms 2, 3, and 5 expecting to be direct hits.
And not just this weekend either, but in the weeks and months ahead as well.

Solar Cycle 25 began its 11-year cycle in 2019, with the highest level of activity occurring now through October 2024. Every 11 years or so, the sun's magnetic field gets tangled up like a ball of tightly wound rubber bands until it eventually snaps and completely flips — turning the north pole into the south pole and vice versa. In the lead-up to this gargantuan reversal, the sun amps up its activity: belching out fiery blobs of plasma, growing dark planet-size spots and emitting streams of powerful radiation.

Scientists are typically able to predict the solar maximum, but that has proven more difficult for Solar Cycle 25.
Scientists originally predicted the solar maximum around July 2025, but it has arrived much sooner. In January 2023, scientists observed more than twice as many sunspots as NASA had predicted (143 observed versus 63 estimated), with the numbers staying nearly as high over the following months. In total, the number of observed sunspots has exceeded the predicted number for 27 months in a row.

Tzu-Wei Fang, a researcher at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, explains in Live Science:

If a solar storm does hit, it can ionize Earth's upper atmosphere and fuel radio and satellite blackouts. Big storms that block the planet's connections to satellites can temporarily wipe out long-range radio and GPS systems for up to half the planet. On its own, that is just a minor inconvenience, but if a lengthy blackout coincided with a major disaster, such as an earthquake or tsunami, the results could be catastrophic. Strong solar storms can also generate ground-based electrical currents that can damage metallic infrastructure, including older power grids and rail lines.

All the following will be affected:

Internet commerce
Supply chains
GPS systems
Electrical chips in automobiles
Cell phone communications
Power grids
Satellite transactions

< https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/solar-maximum-could-hit-us-harder-and-sooner-than-we-thought-how-dangerous-will-the-suns-chaotic-peak-be/ >

< https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/solar-maximum-could-hit-us-harder-and-sooner-than-we-thought-how-dangerous-will-the-suns-chaotic-peak-be >

< https://spacesymposium365.org/as-new-solar-cycle-heats-up-multiple-missions-explore-suns-mysteries/ >(edited)