Editor’s Note: The original title of this story from Michael Snyder is, “Brace For Impact! On 11/11 The Sun Unleashed An Absolutely Massive Solar Storm That Will Hit The Earth On 11/12.” On one hand, I totally respect the power of the sun to cause massive problems for our planet. On the other hand, we’ve heard about “the next Carrington Event” many times in recent years and we’re still here. It’s definitely worth covering, but considering there’s not much we can do to prepare for it, I opted for the toned-down headline and upfront caveat note. With that said, here’s Michael’s story…
(End of the American Dream)—A G4 geomagnetic storm watch has been issued, and we are being told that the Earth is going to be hit. But at this hour we do not know how bad it will be or how much damage will be done. We are being told that scientists won’t know the intensity of the solar storm that is heading our way until it is a million miles from our planet. If the storm is much more powerful than expected, we will have less than an hour to prepare. In such a short period of time, there would be little that we could do to protect our power grids. So hopefully this solar storm will turn out to be relatively minor, because we are completely and utterly unprepared for another Carrington Event.
On Tuesday morning, the Sun unleashed an X5.1 solar flare.
It was the most powerful solar flare that we have seen in 2025…
The sun erupted in spectacular fashion this morning (Nov. 11), unleashing a major X5.1-class solar flare, the strongest of 2025 so far and the most intense since October 2024.
The eruption peaked at 5 a.m. EST (1000 GMT) from sunspot AR4274, which has been bursting with activity in recent days.
This was the third day in a row that the Sun has unleashed an X-class flare…
“A flare is an eruption of energy from the sun that generally lasts minutes to hours,” the SWPC explains. The agency has reported multiple solar flares this week, including an X1.7 on Sunday, an X1.2 on Monday, and an X5.1 early Tuesday morning.
It is highly unusual to see X-class flares for three days in a row.
At the same time that the X5.1 solar flare erupted on Tuesday morning, the Sun also unleashed a “fast-moving coronal mass ejection” from the exact same area…
An “energetic” and fast-moving coronal mass ejection, or CME, was hurled out by the sun on Tuesday from the same area as the solar flare. We’ve already seen some CME activity this week with the aforementioned solar flares. When CMEs, essentially “sun burbs” of plasma and magnetic material hurled into space, interact with Earth’s atmosphere, they cause geomagnetic storms.
To say that it is “fast-moving” is quite an understatement in my opinion.
We are being told that material from this coronal mass ejection is moving in our direction at a speed of 1,400 kilometers per second.
That is a blistering pace.
Authorities originally issued a G3 geomagnetic storm watch, but that has now been upgraded to a G4 geomagnetic storm watch…
A rare Severe Geomagnetic Storm Watch is in place through Wednesday, November 12, when the coronal mass ejection (CME) is expected to arrive at and partially impact Earth by midday.
A G4 (Severe) Watch is uncommon, but it is the fourth to be issued so far this solar cycle.
Solar storms are ranked on a five point scale.
So this is a very serious warning.
But the truth is that forecasters really don’t know how powerful this solar storm is going to be yet.
In fact, we are being told that they won’t really know how intense it is “until it arrives 1 million miles from Earth and is observed by the solar wind observatories”…
“The intensity of the CME will not be known with better certainty until it arrives 1 million miles from Earth and is observed by the solar wind observatories at that location,” NWSSPWC said. “It is at that point that any needed Warning decisions can be made by SWPC forecasters.”
By the time this solar storm is a million miles away from us, we will have less than an hour to prepare.
If this storm turns out to be a “nothingburger”, that won’t be a problem.
But if it turns out to be a G5 storm, we will be in very serious trouble.
And apparently there is one model that is indicating that what we are facing is “potential G5 storm material”…
So what would a G5 storm look like?
In 1859, an absolutely enormous solar storm fried telegraph wires all over the country.
That solar storm ultimately became known as “the Carrington Event”.
If a similar solar storm hit us today, the consequences “could be catastrophic”…
If a solar storm comparable to the Carrington Event happened today, the effects could be catastrophic. Electrical grids are especially vulnerable—induced currents can easily overload capacitors and transistors—and that might be just the beginning. Due to cascading effects—one technology being dependent on another—disruptions could affect health care, water and sanitation, the financial industry and more. The worst-case scenario, says Dahl, could involve “a large-scale power outage that could affect a number of states in different areas of the country.”
Experts believe that recovering from the most severe solar storm could take a decade and cost trillions of dollars. As a recent op-ed in the Washington Post put it: “One of the greatest threats to global infrastructure comes from the sun … there’s no need to panic. There is, however, a need to prepare.”
In 1859, our society used very little electricity.
Today, we would have no idea how to function if our power grids went down for an extended period of time.
Interestingly, the Space Weather Prediction Center has issued power grid warnings for 11 northern states…
Warnings have been issued for portions of the United States’ electric power grid amid a forecasted severe geomagnetic storm.
The Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued the forecast on Tuesday, saying a geomagnetic storm at a strength of category G4 would cause issues with electrical grids for states poleward of the 45th parallel.
States north of that latitude include Oregon, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
If you lose power within the next 24 hours, this will probably be the most likely reason.
Over the years, I have written a lot about how vulnerable our power grids are.
But our politicians refused to spend the money that would have been necessary to harden them.
Now a giant solar storm is racing toward us at a speed of 1,400 kilometers per second.
Will we get lucky, or has our luck just run out?
In less than 24 hours, we will know.
Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.