Officials issue warning of geomagnetic storm coming today that threatens phone networks and power grids
Electrical grids and mobile services could be completely wiped out
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An incoming geomagnetic storm could cause major issues worldwide, as officials and scientists have warned that phone networks and power grids could be completely wiped out later today.
Weather can always be a nuisance when it comes to power if its strong enough, as this summer areas of Spain and Portugal saw electrical grids completely wiped out, causing chaos as a result.
However, one of the most dangerous events could be just around the corner according to scientists, as experts have warned people to brace for a geomagnetic storm that could hit Earth as early as later today.
As reported by the Daily Mail, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has warned that incoming solar activity could trigger a geomagnetic storm that reaches G4 on their scale, high is the second most dangerous classification.
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This could be significant enough to impact phone networks and electrical grids, potentially shutting down technological systems in an event that could be incredibly dangerous if it's as prevalent as scientists fear.
Estimations from the US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) assert that there could be temporary outages for key electrical grid systems in the globes higher latitudes, with radio signal blackouts and mobile network disruption — with the latter of which also potentially affecting GPS signals.
Northern areas of Europe are expected to be hit most by this potential weather disruption, with most of Canada, Alaska, and parts of Russia also impacted, but this could also extend lower down the planet with further disruption.
At the current time of writing, the coronal mass ejection (CME) that's causing the geomagnetic storm continues to pass over the Earth, with the 'heart' of it continuing to affect our planet in the coming hours.
"SWPC forecasters believe that Earth was and is impacted by the first two of three anticipated CME arrivals," explains the Space Weather Prediction Center in a new update, adding that they "believe the final and most energetic CME has yet to arrive and may still be on track for a midday (EST) or so arrival."
It was also added that experts have spotted "indications of another, perhaps stronger CME moving through space and that could be the third CME we are still awaiting according to our forecast."
This is the largest solar storm recorded across 2025 so far, with the last notable event like this happening back in April, with auroras sighted 'as far south as France', but there have only been 75 of these recorded since 1942.
There has been a brief radio blackout as a result of the ongoing CME, with areas of Europe and Africa hit by disruption to aviation, maritime, emergency, GPS, radar, and satellite services.