Thread by @DoomsdayDebunks

Headlines about solar storm headed for Earth are fake news. There was an X-class flare that caused some over the horizon radio blackouts on July 3 - few people use long wave radio now.

Tony Rice from NASA explains here:

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Solar flares and solar storms do nothing to the internet (connected via optical fibre) or cell phones (connected via direct microwave transmission). They can cause short term glitches in GPS.

Once per century solar storms may cause powercuts, in particular places depending on local geology and lengths of power lines, indistinguishable from ones we get anyway - surges could affect old model step up down transformers or near end of their life.

Even if we get a major storm like that, once per century, it's more a problem for electricity companies, won't affect consumers much. Early estimates of massive effects were based on information now out of date. debunkingdoomsday.quora.com/What-would-the…