How will an enormous sun spot and possible solar flares affect Earth?

Ooooh! Excellent question!

So sunspot are blemishes in the sun that are cooler than the rest of the sun. They appear at the surface of the sun in cycles ever 20 or so years. Solar flares are when enough plasma builds up in one spot of the surface, that the sun released the energy through a flare, instead of light. Sun spots can be a problem because, as i said, they are cooler than the other parts, offering us less energy and heat than usual. We already have the phenomenon "El Ninio" occuring, which is where the seas heat up because of lack of sunspots (more heat from the sun). This kills fish in the ocean, giving fisherman a hard time. The opposite can also occur where there are too many sunspots and the waters cool nearly 20 degrees (Fahrenheit). A giant sunspot would affect the migratory patters of fish, affect the weather, and the currents of the ocean (caused by heating and cooling because hot substances rise and cool substances sink). I know how confusing this all sounds but feel free to message me if you dont understand. Sorry i sidetracked alot!

Hope this helped!

We should some nice northern lights, the south will get some too.

Concerns about solar flares are exaggerated, solar flares happen all the time. Certain long transmission lines over poorly conducting soil may be affected but only if they are close to maximum utilization and the utilities will have days of warning to reduce the load, also there are circuit breakers to prevent damage, the 1989 Quebec power outage was one of these breakers tripping. Even if there is damage, the grid is a grid, the portion affected can be switched off till repaired and power re-routed.

Its no longer the flare that should do the wear, its the "coronal mass ejection" that should accompany the flare. A CME is an excellent ball of charged gases, ions and magnetic fields which could return and forth from the solar to the earth (if its aimed our way) in approximately 15 hours. a efficient CME can disrupt digital kit, injury satellites in orbit, and if its good adequate can injury the earth's magnetosphere so it no longer protects us from x-rays and different cosmic radiation. And if its good adequate and of the choice polarity of the earth's field, it could injury or wreck lots of the existence on earth. so some distance we've been fortunate (so some distance as all of us comprehend), yet there have been some CMEs interior the final hundred years that have led to some injury. The greater we matter on digital communique and kit (cellular telephones, GPS, computers) the greater susceptible our society is. whether the CME would not do any actual harm to us or the planet, it ought to disrupt our lives. like the skill failure some years in the past did - that wasn't led to via a CME, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that it replaced right into a flavor of what ought to happen.