2024 Solar Flare Internet Outage

2024 Solar Flare Internet Outage. The sun released a solar flare rated an x8.7 on a scale of one to nine, noaa said tuesday afternoon, topping a group of solar flares over the past week,. An unusual amount of solar activity this week could disrupt some of the most important technologies society relies on.

The chances of a storm triggering a cataclysmic internet outage are minimal, according to. A widespread internet outage could, indeed, be brought on by a strong solar storm hitting earth — a rare but very real event that has not yet happened in the.