For the first time in 19 years, a 'severe' solar storm warning has been issued for several plumes of solar material about to slam into the Earth.These five coronal mass ejections were spat out by a huge and extremely hyperactive sunspot called AR3664 and are due to crash into our atmosphere between May 10 and May 11. The last time NOAA announced a Severe Geomagnetic Storm Watch was in January 2005.
The last time our planet saw a G5 storm was in October 2003, which led to power outages in Sweden and transformers being damaged in South Africa.The sunspot that flung out these five CMEs is now 15 times the size of Earth, similar in size to the sunspot that released the CME that caused the famous Carrington Event in 1859. The Carrington Event is considered the most powerful geomagnetic storm in recorded history.
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