Strong Earth Facing Solar Flare & Associated CME July 7th 2026!

James Kaufman, World News Report Today. Ladies and gentlemen, Sunspot AR-4482 is performing exactly like we thought it may. This was a very strong solar flare-associated coronal mass ejection that left the sun just moments ago. You're looking at GOES-19 solar ultraviolet imager at 304 angstroms, and it gives you a very good view of what just occurred. That was only considered an M4.1 solar flare, but it's definitely going to affect Earth, and it looks very strong. Before we take a closer look at that explosion, I wanted to show you all that it's extremely calm. This is starting today, all day long. Looking at our KP indexes, four of them spread across the U.S., We see that there's no solar wind or plasma hitting anywhere in the United States of America. So we are seeing no solar weather whatsoever. All right, and there she blows. We haven't had much action. Actually, we moved down into B baseline, unbelievably. And all of a sudden, we had an M4.1 solar flare. again a sunspot group 4482 which is still a beta gamma sunspot group i'm expecting it to become a delta class sunspot group shortly all right noah and nasa weren't expecting much from anything on our sun that's earth face and we'll take a look at all the sunspots 4482 you can see an orange there and 4478 are both beta gamma class sunspots the m4.1 peaked at 1419 fairly short term as you can see and as we saw in the charts this only lasted about 12 minutes 13 minutes we're back to a B baseline after that solar flare, a B7.65. Pretty hard to understand, but they weren't really expecting an X-class solar flare today with only a 10%, or really even an M-class solar flare with less than 50%, 40% chance. They were definitely expecting some C-class solar flares, and well, I guess you can call those solar flares. Those used to be our baseline just a week or two ago. Alright, so We have 4479. It is now a delta-class sunspot group. It was beta-gamma just a few moments ago. Another beta-gamma sunspot group. I believe that these are far enough around the outgoing limb of our sun that they're not going to affect Earth any longer. Directly pointing at Earth, we have sunspot group 4485 and 4481. And now over to our culprit, 4482. Well, it's beta gamma class. It may or may not come more complex. It generated our 4.1 solar flare. This is our HMI magnetogram. If you have a good idea of what these sunspots look like. Not a real busy sun at this moment. A still shot, taken today. You can see that the coronal hole looks like it's just about past center disk, so we should be feeling those solar winds by some point tonight or into tomorrow, and I would expect a G1 geomagnetic storm, although they're not predicting one. So this is a named sunspot group, and it looks much more complex than they're giving it credit for. They're calling it simple, and this is, of course, 4482 that produced the M4.1 solar flare just now. All right, moving over to GOES, Solar Ultraviolet Imager, 195 angstroms. There's that 1419, I asked y'all to remember, right in there. And there is the ejection of plasma, and it looks like it definitely went into the atmosphere. It's going to be hard to convince me that all that plasma was sucked up back into the sun, how far out it goes. So that ends right there, but that was quite an ejection. I'm guessing that there's a very large coronal mass ejection associated with this solar flare, again out of AR-4482. Hopefully no one's got any problems seeing that. All right, it's been a very quiet day. Here we go. it was 1419 UTC time. We'll take another look at that. It's right over the Atlantic, parts of the U.S., Africa, the Caribbean, South America. It's like a much stronger flare, even per the radio automation. Since then, nothing's occurred for the rest of the day. It's been quiet, quiet, quiet, and we're currently at a B7, B baseline. We've been there once or twice this year but i don't know if we've been as low as a B7 all right over to SDO HMI magnetogram really gives those well magnetic currents positive or negative a pop this is actually not named you can see it at the bottom of the coronal hole i thought it was one of the named simple sunspots i just checked and it's not named it's also looking like positive over negative it's like it's going to become a sunspot and become a complex sunspot fast. That would be reverse polarity if that was white over black in the southern hemisphere. I believe this is a little black over a lot of white. This is negative over positive here. And this, of course, is 4482. It just sent us that gift. We hope that the coronal mass ejection misses Earth, but there's a pretty good chance it will at least see a glancing blow from that what i would think would be a large coronal mass ejection all right this one was taken at 706 this morning and this is SOHO at 284 angstroms you can see that coronal hole has moved from the central part of our sun which means that it's already expelled all the solar winds, it's going towards Earth, and I would expect an impact at some point tonight or into tomorrow early, and well, we're probably looking at solar winds below 800 kilometers per second, but they might spark a G1 geomagnetic storm. This is that spot that's unnamed, and it looks like it's a reverse polarity. How can this go unnamed so long? It is quite a sunspot to go unnamed and of course this is our culprit 4482, they just gave us our present our 4.1 M class with a large ejecta, that said god bless each and every one of you guys please give us a thumbs up, very important to the channel, please share if you can and always remember anything's possible bizarro world