Solar Flare 2024 Effects. Classified as an x2.5, it. A powerful solar storm impacted earth in early may 2024, triggered by the highly active region ar13664.

Powerful outbursts from the sun—like this bright, flashing solar flare and the adjacent eruption of hot glowing gas—can wreak havoc with earth’s power grids,. Nasa’s solar dynamics observatory (sdo) captured this image of an x5.8 solar flare peaking at 9:23 p.m.