Jason Samenow, in an article for the Washigton Post dated 5/9/12, and titled "Super-Sized Sunspot Region Eyes Earth, May Eject Big Flares" said that the NOAA called it “prominent” and NASA says it’s a “monster”.

HOWEVER, the article said that "while the sunspot region is being called one of the largest in years - as long as 10 Earths and 60,000 miles wide, NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center notes it’s just one-third in area of the large regions of the Halloween Storms in 2003," and further stated that "NASA reports the Halloween sunspot regions of 2003 produced an outbreak of 17 major flares, affecting not only satellite communications but also Sweden’s electrical grid. Aurora were seen as far south as Florida."

According to the article, USA Today reported that this morning, it released an M4-class flare and that NOAA says the flare resulted in a minor (R1) radio blackout.

Anyway, my thinking is that as the sunsport regions of the 2003 Halloween storms were three times as large as this one without producing any MAJOR problems, no doom yet.