Will A Solar Storm Happen In 2024. The great solar storm of 2024 may have made the strongest auroras in centuries. The height of solar activity during a given solar cycle is known as solar maximum, and current estimates predict it will occur between late 2024 and early 2026.
In the first week of may, a barrage of explosive solar flares and coronal mass ejections blasted billions of tons of material from the sun into space. The last solar minimum, when the sun’s activity was at its lowest in the cycle, occurred in december 2019, with the space weather predictions center (swpc) now.