https://www.spaceweather.com/images2020/29nov20/m4flare_teal_anim_strip_opt.gif
What are the odds this will wipe the Dominion voting machines clean?
The flare also hurled a significant coronal mass ejection (CME) into space, shown here in a coronagraph movie from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO):
https://www.spaceweather.com/images2020/29nov20/cme_c3_anim_crop_opt.gif
These are important to keep up on. But before people worry about a Carrington event, remember getting hit with a CME straight on is like shooting a cue ball moving at 18k mph with a shotgun from 93 miles away.
If you try every day for a few million years, you WILL succeed—just not often.
Update: At first it appeared that the CME would completely miss Earth. However, NOAA analysts believe that the outskirts of the cloud might deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field on Dec. 1-2. If so, the impact could spark a minor G1-class geomagnetic storm with auroras over northern countries such as Canada, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
It would be a different story if the main body of the CME hit. Then we would be anticipating a strong geomagnetic storm. Maybe next time!
"Next time" could be just days away. The hidden sunspot that produced this major event will rotate onto the Earthside of the sun during the next 24 hours or so. Then its ability to spark geomagnetic storms will be greatly increased. Instant solar flare alerts: SMS Text.
source: spaceweather.com
https://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=30&month=11&year=2020
.....might sideswipe Earth’s magnetic field.....
Oh yeah. And it might not.
The following 3 images are from today, Nov 30, 2020...
Below, sunspot activity Nov 30, 2020
Below, Magnetogram: opposing magnetic polarities of solar regions (seen as black and white areas)
Below, Extreme ultra-violet (171 Angstroms) 
