High speed solar storm may hit Earth today, to impact GPS, mobile phones signals High speed solar storm may hit Earth today, to impact GPS, mobile phones signals The storm is moving towards the direction of the earth and is expected to batter parts of the planet between July 11-12 Share Updated: Jul 12, 2021, 07:33 AM IST With all the chaos happening in the world, we will have to face a solar storm as well this weekend. As per the experts, a geomagnetic storm is expected to hit the Earth's atmosphere this weekend and weather forecasters have been asked to issue warnings.