Effects of severe radiation storms?
I've got this planet that orbits it's star slightly closer than earth orbits the sun. For story reasons I need it to have small yet severe radiation storms and I was thinking that either a weak or fluctuating magnetic field could cause them. The more pressing question is how would they effect the atmosphere and the surface of the planet. I don't need to know what they would do to organic matter because that's fairly obvious, they'd do what all radiation does.
Some more specifics:
The star the planet orbits is orange, so the majority of its output is on the lower end of the EM spectrum.
The radiation storms are common but not every day. Probably 2-5 are normal in a year, and mostly in desert regions.
The radiation isn't strong enough to render an area uninhabitable for long periods of time, maybe a few weeks at most.
The radiation does not penetrate more than a few meters into stone.
So what would radiation storms like the one I've described above do if they struck one of this planet's deserts? I'd also be interested to hear any ideas on what they would look like as they swept across the landscape.
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