SOLAR WATCH * Huge X8.2 Flare Sept. 10, 2017! (Updated Daily)

We’re going to get some glancing blow from those C flares, even though they say not.

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Red October...RED AIRGLOW...RED AURORAS: "Is this the new normal? Now Red Wave lol

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NOT MUCH TIME TONIGHT GANG...POUNDED A CAN O PINOT GRIGIO...WATCH THOSE HI AN LOW TIDES IN S.F. BAY AND BEACHES AREAS...FOR THE NEXT WEEK-ISH! CAPS.

Can O Wine Here 2. I least we know something wong going on. It reminds of that gravestone etched with "I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK."

SUNSPOT DOUBLES IN SIZE: New-cycle sunspot AR2776 has doubled in size since yesterday. Despite the expansion, it is still relatively small and poses almost no threat for M- or X-class solar flares. Solar activity is expected to remain low for the next 24 hours.

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Yep, glancing blow. And those cme’s were more earth directed than they’re showing.

Love that post!

Minimum flux still lifting.

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A-class MeV flux must be the new normal and still rising.

They are so beautiful! Thanks for posting them joinca!

We're about to get lit up.

A Spectacular Solar Flare Fire Plume & New Bright Regions | Space Weather News 10.18.2020


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What is she talking about? As far as I know, a sunspot releases a flare and sometimes the flare has a CME, since when does a sunspot “launch a solar storm” ??? Was there a flare? Was there a cme?

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I've heard her use that phrasing on filament eruptions in the past. But I think she was referring to this.

IS THIS SUNSPOT CRACKING UP? Yesterday, Italian astronomer Alessandro Bianconi pointed his solar telescope at sunspot AR2776. The active region appears to be cracking up. A bright canyon of light--also known as a "light bridge"--is opening in the sunspot's primary core: [link to spaceweathergallery.com (secure)]

The bridge is about 5,000 miles long, roughly equal to the diameter of Mars. These dimensions make it an easy target for backyard solar telescopes.

The nature of light bridges is not fully understood. Some research suggests that magnetic fields at the base of a light bridge are busy cross-crossing and reconnecting--the same explosive process that sparks solar flares. Does this mean the primary core of AR2776 will explode--or quietly fall apart? More often than not, light bridges herald the breakup of a sunspot. Either way, something is about to happen.

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I guess it exploded :)

The sunspot itself did not flare however it has caused the region around it to become so destabilized , the massive black spot is known as a 'Coronal Hole'

Such is when a region of the sun's field becomes weakened and allows much more solar winds through than normal. So much that it's like we're having a solar storm but there hasn't been a flare.

Which is going to make a real flare , all that much more worse.

Space Weather Message Code: WATA20
Serial Number: 870
Issue Time: 2020 Oct 19 2103 UTC

WATCH: Geomagnetic Storm Category G1 Predicted

Highest Storm Level Predicted by Day:
Oct 20: None (Below G1) Oct 21: None (Below G1) Oct 22: G1 (Minor)

THIS SUPERSEDES ANY/ALL PRIOR WATCHES IN EFFECT

NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at
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Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 60 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude.
Induced Currents - Weak power grid fluctuations can occur.
Spacecraft - Minor impact on satellite operations possible.
Aurora - Aurora may be visible at high latitudes, i.e., northern tier of the U.S. such as northern Michigan and Maine.

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Space Weather Message Code: WATA20
Serial Number: 871
Issue Time: 2020 Oct 20 2119 UTC

WATCH: Geomagnetic Storm Category G1 Predicted

Highest Storm Level Predicted by Day:
Oct 21: None (Below G1) Oct 22: G1 (Minor) Oct 23: G1 (Minor)

THIS SUPERSEDES ANY/ALL PRIOR WATCHES IN EFFECT

NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at
www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation

Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 60 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude.
Induced Currents - Weak power grid fluctuations can occur.
Spacecraft - Minor impact on satellite operations possible.
Aurora - Aurora may be visible at high latitudes, i.e., northern tier of the U.S. such as northern Michigan and Maine.

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I think this is going to spin us up for 2777 that is coming around to tee off.

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