Posted on 10/28/2021 1:44:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Solar particles blasted out in association with the flare could hit Earth tomorrow (Oct. 29).
A major solar flare erupted from the sun on Thursday (Oct. 28) in the strongest storm yet of our star's current weather cycle.
The sun fired off an X1-class solar flare, its most powerful kind of flare, at 11:17 a.m. EDT (1517 GMT), according to an alert from the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Group, which tracks space weather events.
The group warned that the eruption could spawn a wide-area radio communications blackout for high-frequency signals for about an hour. "Area of impact consists of large portions of the sunlit side of Earth, strongest at the sub-solar point," it wrote in an email alert.
Thursday's flare appeared to originate from a sunspot called AR2887 currently positioned in the center of the sun and facing the Earth, based on its location. The sunspot was responsible for two moderate M-class solar flares earlier in the day, according to SpaceWeather.com, which also tracks daily sun weather.
The coronal mass ejection from a Tuesday flare up of AR2887 could deliver a "glancing blow" to Earth sometime on Friday (Oct. 30), SpaceWeather.com reported.
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Biden even screws up the Sun
Peruse later.
too late - this next one is just to add crispy to done
“several spikes occurred throughout Tuesday and into Wednesday, raising the radiation levels noticeably each time.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/a-sunspot-just-showered-the-earth-with-solar-flare-x-rays/ar-AAQ1hdH?ocid=uxbndlbing
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