Huge solar storm to blame for colossal global blackouts — and there are more to come, experts say

The sun has a bone to pick with Earth — and it’s not done yet.

A colossal solar storm just zapped the daylight side of the planet, causing global blackouts and knocking out radio signals across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

The culprit? A fiery X2.7-class solar flare that erupted from sunspot AR4087 early Tuesday morning (May 14), sending charged particles and plasma hurtling toward Earth.

And experts warn, this is just the beginning.

“This is getting intense, especially as this active region turns closer into view,” aurora chaser Vincent Ledvina wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter).