Solar Storm 2024 Internet. In one doomsday scenario raised in the wake of last week's outage, a solar storm could wipe out internet access for weeks. Last weekend, the biggest solar storm to hit earth in over 20 years swept over our planet as the sun’s activity ramps up to the peak of its current solar cycle.
In terms of the internet, a geomagnetic storm on the scale of the carrington event could produce geomagnetically induced currents in the submarine and terrestrial cables that form the backbone. The last g5 event—the most extreme category of such storms—occurred in october.