That won’t be too bad. I suppose to make the prediction she has some idea of the intensity but historically a big solar storm and a direct hit could lead to much worse so maybe big is relative.

Like potentially near apocalyptic bad. Something of that size and intensity could burn out the power grid.

This is a good site that explains it well.

https://spaceweather.com/

At our conference of grid operators. Generators and transmission operators. They kind of scared the beejeesus out of me. It’s pretty much just a question of when we’ll get clobbered. But it has to be the big one at the right orientation for a direct hit. Which historically is only once a century or so.

Almost 100 years ago. Not one GPS was left functioning…..

But a big one can induce currents in power lines and blow transformers. Big transformers are not something that can be replaced quickly. If you had wide spread damage it would take many months to repair.

But with our worthless governor in Texas, his idea of preparing for a massive power outage in rhe summer consists of putting an extra tray of ice cubes in the freezer.

I'd love to see a brilliant aurora again, though. Last time, late 80s maybe, the cars were stopping on the freeway shoulder to have a peek at the several mostly green swirls. Think the weather report is for 90s again, so likely too humid/cloudy w/pop up storms at night.

Here's a NOAA site with a 30-minute aurora forecast for North America, etc:

Nothing in top news sites.