Will we see northern lights, power grid impacts amid 'severe' geomagnetic storm?

(NEXSTAR) — As of Wednesday morning, Earth is being hit by a strong solar radiation storm event that will be followed by a geomagnetic storm, space weather officials say.
It's all thanks to an X1.8 solar flare spotted on the sun overnight. While weaker than the X9 flare detected last week, the flare and its companion coronal mass ejection (CME) could make quite an impact on Earth.Flares and CMEs aren't like meteoroids that can find their way to Earth. Instead, their impacts are largely fel