Not if, but when . . . The US Ran A Solar Storm Emergency Drill And It Suggested The Real Thing Would Be Catastrophic It's a matter of time before a major geomagnetic storm hits planet Earth again. And we ain't ready for it. ​ The findings come from the Space Weather Operations, Research, and Mitigation (SWORM) task force involving researchers from NASA, the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. ​ The drill, performed in May 2024, set up several hypothetical scenarios to understand how the world would respond to the threat of an impending space weather event in January 2028.​ https://www.iflscience.com/the-us-ran-a-solar-storm-emergency-drill-and-it-suggested-the-real-thing-would-be-catastrophic-79302