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I'd be very interested to know what the impact of a severe solar storm would be. The article appeared a little vague on this point.

• smacktoward 10y ago
  The British government report it links to (https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/449593/BIS-15-457-space-weather-preparedness-strategy.pdf https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...) is less so: The ‘reasonable worst case scenario’ for severe space weather is based on the Carrington event of 1859, aligned to our current understanding of the vulnerability of modern technologies... Research suggests that a reoccurrence of the Carrington Event has a 1% annual probability... It is anticipated that the impacts would be: - localised power outages; - disruption of satellite operations, including to Global Navigation Satellite System outages (GPS) and SATCOM disturbances; - disruption to High Frequency communications; - increased radiation to aircrew and passengers in flight, particularly over polar regions; and - further disturbances to small-part electronic systems.