# Solar flares vs. gps

**URL:** <https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/solar-flares-vs-gps/5354>\
**Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\
**Created:** [February 26, 2011, 7:08am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/solar-flares-vs-gps/5354 "2011-02-26T07:08:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![seadawg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@seadawg](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/seadawg)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 7:08am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/solar-flares-vs-gps/5354/1 "2011-02-26T07:08:00Z")

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IMHO…link recieved in an email…good article… but…is this “chicken little science” or valid??

> **[Shields Up: Why Last Week's Solar Storm Was a Dud](https://www.wired.com/2011/02/weak-solar-storm/)**
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> When the largest flare in four years erupted from the sun Feb. 14, sky watchers across the Northern Hemisphere braced themselves for a geomagnetic storm. Space weather experts predicted that jets of charged particles smacking into the Earth’s...