Sun fires off major solar flare from Earth-facing sunspot

space.com ^ | 10/28/2021 | Tarik Maliq

[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.

[BenLurkin]

[rfp1234]

[Qui is]

So, we’re all gonna die, again?

[algore]

Does anyone else remember the Ed Dames remote viewer guy who would always haarp on this, and say it would be a “kill shot”

but he was always super careful never to ever give a time frame for any of his predictions ever. (of course)

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Great news. It's a good way to get that Indian Summer tan.

[BenLurkin]

One can only hope....

[Rebelbase]

The worst that could happen.

[BipolarBob]

Hold on there, Sun. Wait until the Davos Reset Committee decides what to do about you.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Meteor 2021!

...but hey, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

[z3n]

“...could deliver a “glancing blow” to Earth sometime on Friday (Oct. 30)...”

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Let’s parse the vaguery here;

“could” deliver (because we don’t want to commit to a plain declarative)

“glancing” blow (so probably nothing burger)

“sometime” on Friday Oct.30 (this makes a huge difference. Is it going to hit Asia, Africa/Europe, or North America??? The time on Oct.30th and the earths rotation are fairly important factors here)

[ro_dreaming]

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 most powerful kind of flare, SO FAR.

[Carriage Hill]

What time do I shut down/unplug my desktop and flip phone?

[dayglored]

Now wait just a cotton-pickin' minute.

> "...could deliver a "glancing blow" to Earth sometime on Friday (Oct. 30)..."

No Such Day.

Friday (tomorrow) is the 29th.

The 30th is Saturday.

Which is it?

[SJSAMPLE]

I loved the last two minutes of “Knowing”. Sometimes, I think we deserve it.

[BenLurkin]

Nothing to worry about unless you find a stack of these outside your door....

[BenLurkin]

http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/wacky.wav

[catbertz]

I’ll just stick some marshmallows out of my window. 😁

[dayglored]

Looks like they meant Friday October 29.

[pas]

So when is the next time Oct 30th is on a Friday. This must be a real slow moving one. Tomorrow is Friday the 29th.