User blog comment:Pencil-/Solar Storm Tomorrow!/@comment-3064571-20120308025907

NASA said that solar activity would be up for the next 18 months, started in January. This is all will last barely an hour, maybe two at most. The North American Power Grid will not be disrupted majorly, or be permanently affected, I'm taking an electricity class, and have studied up on the Sun for many years, as well as solar explosions. Solar flares disrupt magnetic and electromagnetic properties becuase the high energy particles, such as neutrinos, charged protons, neutrons, and electrons (ions) are sent hurling towards Earth, and the particles can disrupt the other particles in electric or magnetic properties. Nothing major, nothing more than some static.