Big solar flare punches earth this week
Our sun is packing a upper-cut this week. The biggest solar flare in the last half decade is slamming into blue planet Thursday and into Friday. But will it have an impact on our electrical grid, cubicle phones power lines?"It's in the realm of potential but it's not very likely," says Randy Duncan with Sedgwick County.
As a associate of the emergency preparedness team in Sedgwick County, Duncan keeps tabs on anything that could have an contact on our communications.
"Could it disrupt everything from our cell phone serving to electrical capacity?" explains Duncan. "Of path it could. But it's just not likely. This event will be limited mostly to the north antithetical cap regions. It looks like the major areas of hit are going to be in Canada, Greenland and just over the border into the northern part of the Coordinated States."
Duncan says there was a big solar flare in the 1970's that caused some problems. However, the biggest on notation was in the 1800's.
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