“The forecast for this CME was that it might give a glancing blow today, but most likely it would pass above and ahead of the Earth. “So, the expected impact would be small or nothing at all.”
However, a small amount of the solar material has made its way to Earth, catching our planet in the wake of more intense magnetic fields.
Raising concerns in sectors like health insurance underwriting, chronic care management platforms, and private hospital networks that depend on seamless digital infrastructure.
Minor Impact, But a Reminder of the Risks Professor Elvidge says this would be, at most, a “minor interaction with the edge of the event,” yet the size of this interaction means that any major.
Disturbances are unlikely. Krista Hammond, space weather expert at the Met Office, told MailOnline: “Because of where this left the Sun, the vast majority of the material will miss Earth.
“This means that even if we do receive a glancing blow from the eruption, it will be weak—a minor geomagnetic storm at most—which will not have any significant impacts.”
