Solar Storm March 2024. A cme associated with an x1.1 flare observed at 23/0133 utc is expected to arrive at earth. Early on saturday 23 march 2024, the sun released a strong x1.1 solar flare, the most powerful possible type, from a particularly active region pointing directly towards earth.

On april 17, 2021, one of the solar terrestrial relations observatory (stereo) spacecraft captured this view of a coronal mass ejection billowing away from. Such warnings could give them time to take action to protect their assets and infrastructure from an impending solar storm, such as temporarily taking sensitive.